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

Marie Nejar died last month at the age of 95. As far as the Initiative Schwarze Menschen in Deutschland (ISD) is ...

I thought,’ White wrote in his autobiographical masterpiece The Farewell Symphony (1997), ‘that never had a ...

Malak Mattar’s monumental 2024 black-and-white painting inspired by Guernica is entitled No Words (… for Gaza).

In Social Topography of a Rural Community, Steve Hindle describes the lives of 780 inhabitants of 176 households ...

The Royal Museum of the Belgian Congo became the Royal Museum of Central Africa after Brussels choked back its fury ...

‘How useful is it,’ Daniel Trilling asked recently in the LRB, ‘to compare the current global resurgence of right-wing nationalism to fascism?’ In this episode of the podcast Daniel joins TJ to ...

How can we account for France’s historical wavering on race, between an extraordinary openness to assimilation ...

In a Facebook post from 2012, Alaa Abd el-Fattah, who had just spent time in Tora prison, south of Cairo, begs us not to accept as normal the fact of someone, anyone, being in prison. Insist, he urges ...

Detective novels offer a means of rehearsing the fearful reality of death, and in this sense the conventions of ...

There are no rules about what constitutes a crisis. Calls can be about an assault that took place days earlier or ...