When Casablanca went into production in the spring of 1942, most of Morocco was a French protectorate, administered ...

Many thinkers have characterised modernity by its investment in the idea of pluralism, ‘of things being various’, in Louis MacNeice’s phrase. How do the virtues of plurality and difference fit with ...

Taybeh, on a hilltop near Ramallah, is the site of the Middle East’s oldest microbrewery, which produces ...

The term ‘natural disaster’ is a misnomer. In Late Victorian Holocausts, Mike Davis demonstrated that mass starvation in 19 th -century India, China and Brazil could be explained by the erosion of ...

English identity is a funny business: we can be one thing to ourselves and something else to others, and that changes depending on mood and context. During this World Cup – and particularly when DR ...

Would the Founding Fathers recognise the modern United States as the republic they declared in 1776? The nation formed from Britain’s North American colonies has become the most powerful and ...

Trump’s most shocking move to influence the Honduran electorate was to pardon the former president Juan Orlando ...

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

We may have mixed feelings about the title of Steven Spielberg’s new movie, Disclosure Day. Doesn’t it sound a bit legal? How close is ‘disclosure’ to its apparent synonyms ‘revelation’ and ‘exposure’ ...

Faridoon Tofan wanted to see Rome. The 46-year-old Afghan national had been living in Germany since 2022 without ...

The hollowness of the RN revolution became clear this week, when Marine Le Pen announced she would be standing again to become France’s head of state, despite a criminal conviction for embezzlement ...

Nabila Ramdani is a French journalist and academic of Algerian descent. Fixing France: How to Repair a Broken Republic was published in paperback in May 2026.