The conflict in West Papua may be the world’s most unequal war: raids on military bases have improved the West ...

The few optimists in Labour claim that polling numbers aren’t meaningful this far from an election: faced with ...

Reading the work​ that Susan Howe has produced over the past half century, one marvels at the consistency and depth ...

Amia Srinivasan is the Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at All Souls College, Oxford and a contributing ...

I have studied mankind and know my heart; I am not made like any one I have been acquainted with, perhaps like no one in existence; if not better, I at least claim originality, and whether Nature has ...

Women incarcerated in Evin Prison in Tehran began their protest against the death penalty on Tuesday, 30 January 2024. The campaign of hunger strikes, now known as ‘No to Execution Tuesdays’, was ...

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

The annual World Conker Championships take place every October in the grounds of the Shuckburgh Arms, a pub in ...

Narges Mohammadi, who was jailed in November 2021 and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2023, was punched in the chest by an Evin guard during a protest in August 2024. She was released on medical leave a ...

The life of the tenth Ottoman sultan, Suleyman, known in Europe as the Magnificent and in Turkey as the Lawgiver, ...