The LRB is Europe’s leading magazine of books and ideas. Published twice a month, it provides a space for some of ...

Nathan Fielder loves an elaborate plan. In the TV show that made his name, Nathan for You, the Canadian satirist ...

The LRB is Europe’s leading magazine of books and ideas. Published twice a month, it provides a space for some of ...

Marie Nejar died last month at the age of 95. As far as the Initiative Schwarze Menschen in Deutschland (ISD) is ...

I wanted to understand the figure of Riefenstahl in her development,’ Andres Veiel says, ‘without exculpating ...

All autobiography is inherently mendacious, if only by omission and with the intent of protecting the innocent. In ...

In Social Topography of a Rural Community, Steve Hindle describes the lives of 780 inhabitants of 176 households ...

I thought,’ White wrote in his autobiographical masterpiece The Farewell Symphony (1997), ‘that never had a ...

How can we account for France’s historical wavering on race, between an extraordinary openness to assimilation ...

James Meek looks at some of the political debate stirred in Greenland by the release of a Danish documentary earlier this year and considers why Donald Trump is so obsessed with owning the island.

Laila Soueif never normalised her son’s incarceration. Through three arrests and three trials she fought for him in the courts, in legal depositions, appeals, marches, protests. Then, on 29 September ...