In the West Papuan regency of Merauke, close to the border with Papua New Guinea, Indonesia is rapidly clearing land ...

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is a wheel where they turn to tell him sorrow is gain. The way he sets his spine to the ironwork is a drag-line of grief: ...

As for the garden – yes, there can be golden flecks in it – there is a glow. And the shrubs and trees in her yard are in cone, globe and weeping shapes. Otherwise, it is undecorated.

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Donald Trump has alienated a good number of his MAGA supporters by seeking to suppress the full disclosure of the Jeffrey Epstein files. Are his supporters angry because they think he is guilty of ...

Terry Eagleton begins his recent piece on Hegel with a deprecating anecdote: ‘The Oxford philosopher Gilbert Ryle claimed he had once talked a student out of suicide by pointing out to him that the ...

Oliver Cussen notes that Malthus ‘had a very narrow appreciation of the ways people lived off the land’ (LRB, 26 September). It is not sufficiently recognised that until at least the 16 th century, ...

Fraser MacDonald’s piece about compost reminded me of my time at an agricultural college many years ago (LRB, 17 April). Behind the byre of a nearby farm was a rank, steaming compost heap almost as ...

I don’t suppose Donald Trump or Keir Starmer saw the row of flags, black, white and green with a red triangle, on ...

Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, is being destroyed in a fight to the death between two venal, brutal generals. This is a war of choice; allowing it to happen was a failure of international diplomacy. But ...