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

No Kings.’ Instead, it says: ‘Not this one, but perhaps his brother or his ...

In The Impact of Labour, Maurice Cowling wrote that politics in the 1920s was ‘fifty or sixty people’ in tension with one another. The Battle of Ideas, which packed out Church House for a weekend in ...

He was born in 1874 and spent his first eleven years in San Francisco, where the Frost family managed on very little, ...

Some parishioners morphed into willing Protestants; defiant Catholics – recusants – refused to attend services; other ...

What is Trumpism? After all these years, we’re still asking the question. For some, Trump’s second term has revealed the fascism that was there all along; others diagnose a peculiar combination of ...

After seventeen minutes the sky cleared. Seventeen minutes of rain was enough to flood the tents of thousands of families.

Jorge Luis Borges was a librarian with rock star status, a stimulus for magical realism who was not a magical realist, and a wholly original writer who catalogued and defined his own precursors.

Vallejo was born in 1892, the youngest of eleven children, in an Andean town in the north of Peru. Using the word for a child ...

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

From 1819 to 1831, Colombia and Venezuela were part of the same country (Gran Colombia also included Ecuador, Panama and parts of Brazil and Peru). In ‘Me voy Pa’Cali’, Oscar D’León sang: ‘Listen, my ...

The Strand, which today has its western limit at Trafalgar Square, was first recorded in the Roman period, as the ...