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

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

The moment they step on court most of them become nervous wrecks. They lie about line calls and bicker over the score; if ...

If I weren’t a person, I’d be a mushroom,’ the narrator thinks in Olga Tokarczuk’s House of Day, House of Night.* In Drive ...

British generals and politicians keep warning that the UK needs to be ready for imminent war or – in the government’s ...

In my own For You journey into Faragism, I was struck by the recurring assumption that the ultimate prize was exit ...

Gulbadan Begum was the daughter of the founder of the Mughal Empire. She is the only Mughal woman known to have ...

Didion’s essay ‘On Keeping a Notebook’, from 1966, is where readers first met Quintana, in the year she was born. ‘Although I have felt compelled to write things down since I was five years old,’ ...

Belle da Costa Greene was one of the best-paid women in New York City. As J.P. Morgan’s personal librarian, she criss-crossed the Atlantic in pursuit of rare manuscripts to add to his collection, ...

During a parliamentary debate on the Terrorism Bill in 2000, MPs asked whether the legislation could be used to proscribe Greenpeace as a terrorist organisation. The group had, in recent years, ...

In 2004, the House of Lords allowed the appeal of nine foreign nationals against their indefinite detention under the ...

The US has declared an uncertain and messy end to its attack on Iran. Trump announced a ceasefire some hours before ...