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

Thucydides is often read these days as a pioneering political theorist, who identified the normative principles ...

Ten years ago Berta Cáceres, a campaigner against dams and mining projects that were displacing rural communities ...

You might think, given the subject, that the male hosts I think of as the podcast bros would have invited on a woman ...

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

The war launched against Iran by the United States and Israel is a war of choice and of hubris. There is scarcely ...

In 2014, Steve Ballmer bought the Los Angeles Clippers for a then-record $2 billion, rescuing the basketball team ...

Remember perestroika? That was Mikhail Gorbachev’s ill-fated experiment in reform in the late 1980s which ended with the sudden collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. The perestroika story, as we read ...

For months, I had watched our pile of firewood shrink. We didn’t burn it to keep warm but reserved it for cooking. Smoke got into everything: our faces, our hair, our clothes, the blankets we tried to ...

Once at a gate with cherries. Know this quickly buried now or less to file history brief stuffed full of pen force, the time it takes to various accounts echoing in my library to ensure passage broke ...

Though the last twelve episodes have taken Marina Warner and her interlocutors through many worlds and texts, no series could ever encompass the full scope of fantastic literature. This episode, ...