I believe there is a moral case for disarming the machinery of war that is killing innocent civilians in Gaza with ...

Attempts to abolish England’s bishops, driven by Scottish Presbyterians, appeared to open the door to social revolution. So ...

Austerity is a choice. The protection of the family at the expense of other ways of living is a choice. The transfer ...

The crux of Daniel Kehlmann’s Director is whether it’s weakness or necessity that makes G.W. Pabst compromise.

There’s a pleasing Cheshire usage that Garner uses throughout his books, plunder to mean ‘ponder’, and as far as he’s ...

Humanitarian aid has long served as cover for Israeli crimes. Under the Geneva Conventions, an occupying force ...

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

Yigal Bronner is a peace activist in the occupied West Bank.

Lynn, DeLynn’s narrator/alter ego, looks back from adulthood at her final year of school. She knows there is something wrong ...

Marguerite Yourcenar entered the Académie Française in 1981, the first woman to be admitted. Her novel Memoirs of Hadrian, published thirty years earlier, is ‘often considered the best French novel of ...

Chuck Berry’s ‘Maybellene’ recently turned seventy. Recorded on 21 May 1955 in a studio on the South Side ...