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 ...

In the final episode of Political Poems, Mark and Seamus discuss ‘Little Gidding’, the fourth poem of T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets. Emerging out of Eliot’s experiences of the Blitz, ‘Little Gidding’ ...

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

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 ...

In the weeks since his inauguration, Donald Trump has issued a series of executive orders intended to undermine progressive law and, in some cases, the foundations of constitutional democracy itself.

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 ...

Ghassan Abu-Sittah and Muhammad Shehada join Adam Shatz to describe what life was like in Gaza in the months and years leading up to the Hamas attack on Israel last October, and to discuss the ...

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 ...