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

A champion self-advertiser, maven of the brag and the humblebrag, Whitman announces in the first pages of Specimen ...

She’s just moved in with Elliot. Their new flat is in an affluent neighbourhood, surrounded by bakeries, yoga studios and organic vegetable shops. They even have a garden. And yet, from the moment ...

In 2019, a group of scientists led by Owen Toon, a professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences at the University ...

Months before the Trumpist onslaught on higher education, US universities were rushing to prohibit protest encampments. Why do some ramshackle tents on lawns present such a threat to authority – as ...

Five hundred years ago this week, the rebels of the German Peasants’ War, or Bauernkrieg, were defeated in a series ...

Hugh Roberts has died from cancer at the age of 76. Among his books were a collection of penetrating articles ...

About twenty minutes’ walk from Odesa’s main railway station, down the city’s wide avenues lined with plane trees, you reach one of the hubs of the Ukrainian Côte d’Azur. Sports cars and SUVs rumble ...