The campaign in the north-east aims to bring an end to the Democratic Autonomous Administration in North and East Syria, more commonly known as Rojava – the largest territorial holdout from the time ...

Adam Shatz gave this LRB Winter Lecture at Conway Hall on 16 January 2026. Adam Shatz is the LRB ’s US editor. He is the ...

Chimpanzees, New Caledonian crows – and now cows. The list of animals that use tools grew a little longer this ...

Safety is a trigger word for me,’ Aliyah says on the first day of the women’s circle in the documentary ...

James is joined by political theorist Alan Finlayson to try to understand the rise of Reform UK and the ways in which different styles of online rhetoric, on both the left and right, are shaping our ...

The destruction of Palestinian lives is now a base line in a holding pattern. The ferocious white heat of the past ...

The choice of narco-trafficking as the pretext is partly motivated by a desire to skirt even the feeble murmurs ...

Robert Louis Stevenson’s Kidnapped began life serialised in a children’s magazine, but its sophistication and depth won the lifelong admiration of Henry James. In Stevenson’s hands, a straightforward ...

I n October ​ I went to the Royal Albert Hall to watch the final of the National Brass Band Championships. Each of the ...

David Wengrow is professor of comparative archaeology at University College London. His books include What Makes Civilisation ...

The World Economic Forum in Davos is ending with talk of a rupture in world affairs, a collapse of international law, ...

The US desire to annex Greenland is traceable to at least 1867 and the ambitions of the secretary of state William ...