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

It would be a mistake to see the attempt to deport Mahmoud Khalil for his political views in relation to Palestine as ...

Two recent books, by Peter Beinart and Rachel Shabi, discuss the response of Jewish communities in the West to the Hamas attacks of 7 October and Israel’s subsequent destruction of Palestinian life in ...

I thought of it again when the Home Office published a report celebrating its ‘UK-wide blitz on illegal working to strengthen ...

But wait, actually, no. The mother’s contribution is independent of the child’s sex. The child’s sex is determined by the ...

Nigeria already struggles with inadequate healthcare funding. This year’s budget allocates only 5.18 per cent of ...

Both in art and in our general ideas about the passage of human life there is assumed to be a general abiding timeliness. We assume that the essential health of a human life has a great deal to ...

Schneewittchen, a film by Stanley Schtinter based on a text by Robert Walser, opens with a shot of a man in black ...

A decade ago, the hedge fund manager Paul Marshall was known as a Lib Dem donor and founder of the Ark academy chain. Now, as the owner of UnHerd, GB News and, since last September, the Spectator, ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. Laleh Khalili talks to Tom about the mythology of covert military operatives, through romance novels, self-help books ...

Decipherments of ancient scripts are often attributed, and sometimes misattributed, to individual scholars: Jean-Jacques Barthélemy and the Phoenician alphabet, Champollion and Egyptian hieroglyphs, ...