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

One reason to welcome a new translation is that old terms and cadences tend to petrify: repeat a phrase often enough ...

Xiong’an is being built on a stretch of nondescript agricultural land about three times the size of New York City. The site ...

When I told people I was going to Guantánamo Bay last September to observe the trial of the 9/11 hijackers, I was ...

Last month, the Rwanda-backed March 23 Movement set up shadow administrations in key areas it has conquered in the ...

Entire families in Gaza have been killed together in their homes in unprecedented numbers; experts have found that, during ...

Tom Lowenstein, the poet and ethnographer, died on 21 March. His fieldwork in an Iñupiaq village in north-west Alaska began in the 1970s and resulted in seven books or more. Some were orthodox ...

The anthropologist Margaret Mead was just over five feet tall and had to stand on a suitcase to be seen above the lectern when she delivered her 1967 keynote address to the President’s Committee on ...

Dr Lennox Johnston, a Merseyside GP, took the train to London, intending to pluck ...