It’s hard to see how Nasrallah’s prudence will survive the pager and short-wave radio attacks of this week, ...

Nearly four years on from the Capitol riot, the issue of culpability remains unresolved. To Democrats, the answer ...

For the last nine months, representatives from the United States, Israel, Egypt, Qatar and Hamas have ostensibly been ...

One of the most fascinating aspects of Wei Shujun’s film Only the River Flows is the continuing contrast between ...

Following a prolonged drought, smoke from wildfires in the Amazon basin is choking people over an enormous swath ...

The question of what computers can’t do was posed in 1972 by the philosopher Hubert Dreyfus. Dreyfus’s answer ...

The Lebanese novelist Elias Khoury died yesterday at the age of 76. When his early book The Little Mountain (1977) ...

Young Kenyans are frustrated by a lack of economic opportunities and public services, characterising themselves as ...

A video posted on 26 August shows Alice Kisiyia, a Palestinian from Beit Jala, standing in front of her land, which Israeli settlers have taken over and fenced off from her. They sit at her family ...

This week, a chapter from a new LRB audiobook, Becoming a Philosopher: Spinoza to Sartre by Jonathan Rée. This collection of ten biographical pieces, read by Rée, describes the lives of some of the ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. Jane Ellen Harrison was Britain’s first female career academic, a maverick public intellectual burdened with the ...

This episode is a chapter from Complicated Women by Bee Wilson, a new LRB audiobook, based on pieces first published in the London Review of Books. Wilson explores the lives of ten figures, from Lola ...