It had been twenty years since my last research trip to the British Library when, in November last year, I received an email with the subject line: ‘Important information about our recent cyber ...

‘We die! You make money!’ was one of the slogans that HIV activists chanted at the New York Stock Exchange in 1997 in protest at pharmaceutical companies whose high drug prices had barred millions of ...

Jamelle Bouie is a columnist for The New York Times. Read anywhere with the London Review of Books app, available now from the App Store for Apple devices, Google Play for Android devices and Amazon ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. Adam Shatz is joined by Jamelle Bouie and Deborah Friedell to pick through the results and implications of Trump’s ...

The character of Gawain, one of King Arthur’s leading knights, recurs throughout medieval literature, but the way he’s presented underwent a curious development during the period, moving closer and ...

The great auk was a flightless, populous and reportedly delicious bird, once found widely across the rocky outcrops of the North Atlantic. By the 1860s it was extinct, its decline sharpened by ...

In 1928, the V&A acquired a previously unknown portrait. It shows the Black Jamaican polymath Francis Williams (c. 1690-1762), dressed in a wig, surrounded by books and scientific instruments. In all ...

The polycrisis that is unfolding demands not a return to the status quo but urgent, progressive answers both at home ...

You might think that a novelist who works in more than one language would want language itself to become conceptual, ...