Eighty years on, Dead of Night stands as an astute meditation on repression and madness. Time, however, has dulled ...

A small thin girl nearby seesawed her knife on top of her tough food with urgency. And although she managed to cut up a part ...

Unlike 20th-century communism or fascism, contemporary Russian ideology does not have a clearly articulated manifesto ...

In the Central Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, I got into an argument with an Israeli woman who was tearing down ...

Towards the end of April, a bus with fifteen foreign journalists headed north from Kyiv to Chornobyl ...

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

Before the war, Muhammad had been the most energetic of us. He wasn’t tall, but he never saw that as an obstacle.

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More than 90 per cent of transactions in the UK are now cashless, yet there is more cash in circulation than ever before. In the UK, there’s about £1300 circulating for every individual; in the US ...

The Sahara is now one of the most inhospitable places on earth, but not because of the desert. It is a dumping ground ...