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

Marie Nejar died last month at the age of 95. As far as the Initiative Schwarze Menschen in Deutschland (ISD) is ...

I thought,’ White wrote in his autobiographical masterpiece The Farewell Symphony (1997), ‘that never had a ...

How can we account for France’s historical wavering on race, between an extraordinary openness to assimilation ...

All autobiography is inherently mendacious, if only by omission and with the intent of protecting the innocent. In ...

In Social Topography of a Rural Community Steve Hindle describes the lives of 780 inhabitants of 176 households in ...

In a Facebook post from 2012, Alaa Abd el-Fattah, who had just spent time in Tora prison, south of Cairo, begs us not to accept as normal the fact of someone, anyone, being in prison. Insist, he urges ...

‘How useful is it,’ Daniel Trilling asked recently in the LRB, ‘to compare the current global resurgence of right-wing nationalism to fascism?’ In this episode of the podcast Daniel joins TJ to ...

Malak Mattar’s monumental 2024 black-and-white painting inspired by Guernica is entitled No Words (… for Gaza).

Twenty years of writing, reading, thinking and travelling went into Memoirs of Hadrian. Several drafts were burned.

Detective novels offer a means of rehearsing the fearful reality of death, and in this sense the conventions of ...

Universities’ reliance on international students is only the most recent attempt to solve a broader problem, one ...