Global Progress Action was in London at the end of last month, filling Methodist Central Hall with politicians and ...

Jonathan Rée explains the ways in which Camus’s philosophy differed from that of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, with whom he’s often associated, and why his most famous novel, L’Étranger, ...

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

The main road west from El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur, was abandoned by travellers during the war in the ...

Controversy over Cecil Rhodes began long before the recent campaign to remove statues of him from the University of Cape Town ...

The mummy portraits are stunning. Their production began around 30-40 ce, sixty or so years after the defeat of ...

The environmental history of European empire doesn’t end with decolonisation. The quasi-colonial schemes of the ...

A proud sci-fi and fantasy nerd, Amanda Knox inhabits the multiverse. She ‘fantasises about moving to a remote ...

What was once the paradigmatic catastrophe, the biblical flood, took forty days and forty nights; today’s exemplar is one big ...

John Heartfield was forced to leave Germany in 1933. Even before the Nazis put him on their hit list, his art had ...

According to Walter Duranty of the New York Times, who called Ebbutt ‘the best newspaperman I ever met’, he had said two ...

Asa Briggs used sweeping educational change to increase equality in England. He helped to make history, as well ...