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How can we account for France’s historical wavering on race, between an extraordinary openness to assimilation ...

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The Royal Museum of the Belgian Congo became the Royal Museum of Central Africa after Brussels choked back its fury ...

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Georgi Gospodinov​ was 22 when Bulgarian communism collapsed in early 1990. ‘The end of our training,’ he has written, ...

Twenty years of writing, reading, thinking and travelling went into Memoirs of Hadrian. Several drafts were burned.

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