It’s an understatement to say that Dolly Parton, who died on Tuesday, was many things to many people. She ...

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

The entire contents of the Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow were auctioned off by a commercial asset sales company on 30 July. In the days leading up to the sale, it was promoted in theHerald ...

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

In The Princess Bride, Wallace Shawn’s character, Vizzini, cries ‘Inconceivable!’ every time something doesn’t go according to his plans. His hired swordsman, Inigo Montoya (Mandy Patinkin), ...

It has been a bad few weeks for Fifa and its president, Gianni Infantino, and therefore a good few weeks for football. ‘Having been re-elected unopposed in 2019 and 2023,’ I wrote in June, ‘Infantino ...

In September 2024, during his presidential campaign, Donald Trump cast Springfield, Ohio as the star of his mass deportation plans. The Rust Belt city was the damsel in distress; the villains were ...

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

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 ...

It has been a bad few weeks for Fifa and its president, Gianni Infantino, and therefore a good few weeks for football. More and worse has happened since the World Cup than even Fifa’s most fatalistic ...

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

I will leave it to those who knew him to speak about Jason Arday’s contributions to academia and university life, ...