The pieces in Wrong Norma are not formally linked but interesting connections among them can be found in the idea ...

Ara Darzi released his report on the English National Health Service last month. To no one’s surprise, he finds ...

Many report still feeling like outsiders in the Netherlands. This legacy of the unspoken and unspeakable – of repression, in ...

The plum tree’s dying branch by branch, A candelabra going dark. Leaves ticket down, no avalanche, A gangrene inches through ...

Blair never owned a mobile phone while prime minister and barely knew how to send an email. At the same time, he ...

On Friday, 27 September, we felt the whole of Beirut shake. A huge plume of smoke was visible across the city.

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

The Broadway cinema in Prestwick closed in 1966. It was converted into a bingo hall, then a squash court and ...

Pankaj Mishra joins Adam Shatz to discuss The Golden Notebook, Doris Lessing’s formally brilliant and startlingly frank 1962 novel. In her portrait of ‘free women’ – unmarried, creatively ambitious, ...

Lauren Oyler is one of our rowdiest and sharpest literary critics, twice causing the LRB website to crash from too much traffic, and author of the novel Fake Accounts. No Judgement is her first ...

Andrew O'Hagan and Deborah Friedell return to the Republican National Convention. They explore second day's theme, Make America Safe Again, and discuss how this convention compares to the last one ...

Abu Rayhan al-Biruni and Ibn Sina illustrate the region’s cosmopolitanism and ingenuity. While being grounded in ...