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 ...

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 ...

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

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, ...

Is writing a poem work? In the first episode of their series exploring the ways in which poetry responds to our personal and collective challenges, Sarah Howe and Sandeep Parmar start by considering ...

Alexandre Kojève: An Intellectual Biography by Boris Groys. Verso, 176 pp., £16.99, November 2025, 978 1 80429 682 0 The Life and Thought of Alexandre Kojève by Marco Filoni, translated by David ...

When I was 78, I wrote a book about being old. I don’t think I’d ever felt the need to swim more than twenty lengths at that time, let alone record my paltry daily achievements. Now I put letters and ...

The Bright Edges of the World: Willa Cather and Her Archbishop by Garrett Peck. New Mexico, 309 pp., £22.99, March, 978 0 8263 6925 3 Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather. Everyman, 344 pp., ...