On 1 November 2024, a concrete canopy collapsed at the renovated railway station in Novi Sad, Serbia’s second ...

Folk tales offer a kind of fabular impersonality, where an author’s voice is lost in a wider fiction machine or culture of storytelling. That form of multi-voiced impersonality played a big part in ...

But wait, actually, no. The mother’s contribution is independent of the child’s sex. The child’s sex is determined by the ...

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

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

I thought of it again when the Home Office published a report celebrating its ‘UK-wide blitz on illegal working to strengthen ...

Only eight years earlier, Henry IV had deposed his cousin Richard II, who died in custody soon afterwards. Richard’s rule was so loathed that the army Henry amassed didn’t have to fight a single ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. Laleh Khalili talks to Tom about the mythology of covert military operatives, through romance novels, self-help books ...

Adam Shatz, the LRB’s US editor, talks to Sindre Bangstad and Reza Zia-Ebrahimi about the Great Replacement conspiracy theory, from its origins in the high tide of French colonial expansionism in the ...

It would be a mistake to see the attempt to deport Mahmoud Khalil for his political views in relation to Palestine as ...

Nigeria already struggles with inadequate healthcare funding. This year’s budget allocates only 5.18 per cent of ...

Decipherments of ancient scripts are often attributed, and sometimes misattributed, to individual scholars: Jean-Jacques Barthélemy and the Phoenician alphabet, Champollion and Egyptian hieroglyphs, ...