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

The United States was born in war and has waged a war of some sort in every year of its existence. Silicon Valley ...

Nathan Fielder loves an elaborate plan. In the TV show that made his name, Nathan for You, the Canadian satirist ...

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

In Social Topography of a Rural Community, Steve Hindle describes the lives of 780 inhabitants of 176 households ...

All autobiography is inherently mendacious, if only by omission and with the intent of protecting the innocent. In ...

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

I thought,’ White wrote in his autobiographical masterpiece The Farewell Symphony (1997), ‘that never had a ...

Malak Mattar’s monumental 2024 black-and-white painting inspired by Guernica is entitled No Words (… for Gaza).

Marie Nejar died last month at the age of 95. As far as the Initiative Schwarze Menschen in Deutschland (ISD) is ...

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

Uganda declared the outbreak over on 26 April. In total there had been fourteen reported cases, of whom four died ...