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 ...

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

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

Circular reasoning is normally condemned by philosophers, but in his 1841 essay ‘Circles’, Emerson proposes that not getting anywhere is precisely what we need to do to find out where we already are.

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

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

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

One way of thinking about fascism is to see it as historically specific: a reactionary mass movement produced by the economic and social chaos that engulfed Europe after the First World War. Fascism ...

Marie Nejar died last month at the age of 95. As far as the Initiative Schwarze Menschen in Deutschland (ISD) is aware, she was the last Black survivor of Nazi Germany. She was born in Mülheim an der ...

In November 1885, Friedrich Engels published an essay in the Commonweal, the journal of the Socialist League, with the title ‘How Not to Translate Marx’. The translator he had in mind was John ...