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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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, ...

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 ...

Acourt summons arrived in December, alerting me that I had been selected for ‘special jury service’. An accompanying letter explained that the trial would be held at the court for the District of ...

Immanuel Kant was against revolutions. In 1793 he described them as the work of ‘political criminals’ and ‘injustice in the highest degree’. He accepted, on the other hand, that they sometimes turned ...

For Biden, the killing of Nasrallah provided a ‘measure of justice’ for Hizbullah’s victims, from the 1983 bombings of the US ...