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

I received an email from my boss at the health department where I work on social epidemiology. It was ...

There is a troubling disconnect between the deterrent rationale and the mechanism that will be used to deny ...

Last month, the Upper Tribunal for Immigration and Asylum granted six displaced Palestinians entry into the UK to ...

In other words, Trump’s America adopts, wholesale, Putin’s explanation for his actions, right down to his mocking accusations against the man who, against enormous odds, led his country’s defence.

Being pretty is a major disaster for women,’ Diana Melly once told a friend, and beauty certainly had a hand in ...

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

Fridges are boxes in which we put food and forget about it. That is both their wonder and their defect. The Italian sociologist Girolamo Sineri claimed that the act of preserving food is ‘anxiety in ...

The exhibition is the first properly to consider Goldin as a filmmaker. When The Ballad of Sexual Dependency (1979-86) came ...

The compound word kolossourgia, ‘monumental composition’, is found only once in extant ancient Greek, in a ringing sentence composed by Strabo of Amaseia. He uses it to convey the scope and technique ...

On 30 September 2001, Tariq Ali was arrested at Munich airport. His hand luggage contained two objects which were regarded as suspicious: a book by Karl Marx and a copy of the Times Literary ...