There’s a pleasing Cheshire usage that Garner uses throughout his books, plunder to mean ‘ponder’, and as far as he’s ...

War amputees are a common sight in Odesa; I’ve had several rides from Bolt drivers with prosthetic limbs. The local athletes ...

Humanitarian aid has long served as cover for Israeli crimes. Under the Geneva Conventions, an occupying force ...

I met the great Iranian novelist Mahmoud Dowlatabadi in 2006. We had the same publisher, and through them he sent me ...

Lynn, DeLynn’s narrator/alter ego, looks back from adulthood at her final year of school. She knows there is something wrong ...

The Canongate Wall is a feature of the Scottish Parliament building in Holyrood, Edinburgh. Designed by Soraya ...

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

Kathleen Jamie is the author of several poetry collections, including The Queen of Sheba, The Tree House and The Overhaul, and three essay collections, Findings, Sightlines and Surfacing. She became ...

Few places celebrated the Restoration in 1660 with more enthusiasm than Sherborne in Dorset. It was late May, and crowds piled into the tight streets of the ancient castle town. Wine flowed and ...