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

Malak Mattar’s monumental 2024 black-and-white painting inspired by Guernica is entitled No Words (… for Gaza).

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

‘How useful is it,’ Daniel Trilling asked recently in the LRB, ‘to compare the current global resurgence of right-wing nationalism to fascism?’ In this episode of the podcast Daniel joins TJ to ...

The Royal Museum of the Belgian Congo became the Royal Museum of Central Africa after Brussels choked back its fury ...

In a Facebook post from 2012, Alaa Abd el-Fattah, who had just spent time in Tora prison, south of Cairo, begs us not to accept as normal the fact of someone, anyone, being in prison. Insist, he urges ...

Universities’ reliance on international students is only the most recent attempt to solve a broader problem, one ...

Detective novels offer a means of rehearsing the fearful reality of death, and in this sense the conventions of ...

The United States was born in war and has waged a war of some sort in every year of its existence. Silicon Valley ...