The conflict in West Papua may be the world’s most unequal war: raids on military bases have improved the West ...

The few optimists in Labour claim that polling numbers aren’t meaningful this far from an election: faced with ...

Amia Srinivasan is the Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at All Souls College, Oxford and a contributing ...

I have studied mankind and know my heart; I am not made like any one I have been acquainted with, perhaps like no one in existence; if not better, I at least claim originality, and whether Nature has ...

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

The annual World Conker Championships take place every October in the grounds of the Shuckburgh Arms, a pub in ...

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

Narges Mohammadi, who was jailed in November 2021 and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2023, was punched in the chest by ...

J. Robert Lennon joins Tom to discuss Elmore Leonard’s rules for writers and the ways in which great crime novels will always defy the prescriptions of the genre.

Only a terminally blithe technocrat could imagine that Reform will be punished for failing to grasp how the system works. The fact that, in most people’s experience, the system doesn’t work is the ...

The life of the tenth Ottoman sultan, Suleyman, known in Europe as the Magnificent and in Turkey as the Lawgiver, ...

This is an essay about hands and handwriting. I think of handwriting as a way to organise thought into shapes. I like shapes. I like organising them. But because of recent neurological changes in my ...