Last Thursday evening, more than twenty Metropolitan police officers – some armed with tasers – broke down the ...

Ekrem İmamoğlu, the mayor of Istanbul, was arrested early in the morning of Wednesday, 19 March, on two charges ...

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

When I told people I was going to Guantánamo Bay last September to observe the trial of the 9/11 hijackers, I was ...

The binary of before and after a particular military event is often misleading when it comes to the experience of those who lived through it. For Jews and members of the Resistance, the days and weeks ...

Thom Dyke is a barrister and a member of the Bar Human Rights Committee.

Peter E. Gordon teaches European intellectual history at Harvard. One reason to welcome a new translation is that old terms and cadences tend to petrify: repeat a phrase often enough and its meaning ...

Xiong’an is being built on a stretch of nondescript agricultural land about three times the size of New York City. The site ...

When Wuthering Heights was published in December 1847, many readers didn’t know what to make of it: one reviewer called it ‘a compound of vulgar depravity and unnatural horrors’. In this extended ...

James Wood and Jonathan Rée introduce their new Close Readings series, Conversations in Philosophy, running throughout 2025. They explain the title of the series and why they'll be challenging a ...