There’s a pleasing Cheshire usage that Garner uses throughout his books, plunder to mean ‘ponder’, and as far as he’s ...

Humanitarian aid has long served as cover for Israeli crimes. Under the Geneva Conventions, an occupying force ...

There are ten thousand freedoms,’ the late Joshua Clover once said, ‘but rock freedom is definitely set – ...

Cannes was chosen in the hope that the festival would revive its appeal as a luxury destination, which had floundered after ...

An Anglo-American audience is a mixed blessing for an Irish artist. Pro: you get their money. Con: their opinions, ...

War amputees are a common sight in Odesa; I’ve had several rides from Bolt drivers with prosthetic limbs. The local athletes ...

In 2004, the House of Lords allowed the appeal of nine foreign nationals against their indefinite detention under the ...

I met the great Iranian novelist Mahmoud Dowlatabadi in 2006. We had the same publisher, and through them he sent me ...

Ouvidor 63 is an illegal but tolerated artist-led occupation of an office block in downtown São Paulo. There are perhaps two ...

Israel’s codename for its attack on Iran, launched last Friday, was Operation Rising Lion, a pointed reference ...

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

The US has declared an uncertain and messy end to its attack on Iran. Trump announced a ceasefire some hours before ...