Last Thursday evening, more than twenty Metropolitan police officers – some armed with tasers – broke down the ...

Xiong’an is being built on a stretch of nondescript agricultural land about three times the size of New York City. The site ...

One reason to welcome a new translation is that old terms and cadences tend to petrify: repeat a phrase often enough ...

When I told people I was going to Guantánamo Bay last September to observe the trial of the 9/11 hijackers, I was ...

Ekrem İmamoğlu, the mayor of Istanbul, was arrested early in the morning of Wednesday, 19 March, on two charges – one related to corruption and the other to terrorism. He released a video of himself ...

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

Last month, the Rwanda-backed March 23 Movement set up shadow administrations in key areas it has conquered in the ...

When Wuthering Heights was published in December 1847, many readers didn’t know what to make of it: one reviewer called it ‘a compound of vulgar depravity and unnatural horrors’. In this extended ...

Tom Lowenstein, the poet and ethnographer, died on 21 March. His fieldwork in an Iñupiaq village in north-west Alaska began in the 1970s and resulted in seven books or more. Some were orthodox ...

The anthropologist Margaret Mead was just over five feet tall and had to stand on a suitcase to be seen above the lectern when she delivered her 1967 keynote address to the President’s Committee on ...