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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 ...
Last September, during an Israeli military incursion into the camp, one of our community health workers was shot while saving one of his colleagues and protecting residents. He has spent several ...
An interview with Saafir showed up on my Instagram feed last November. Jason Moran posted it with the caption: ...
The Mont Pelerin Society was set up in 1947 with the aim of ensuring that the apparent triumph of freedom over fascism in the Second World War should instead be understood as a defeat. Inspired by its ...
When Neville Chamberlain declared war in September 1939, the Conservatives had been in power for a couple of decades, interrupted only briefly by the first two Labour governments. They had been in ...
Andrade tried out Surrealist poetry and wrote an ironic novel with the painfully abstract title Amar, Verbo Intransitivo. It ...
My goal was just to stay safe in Sudan. But I realised I wouldn’t have a chance to study and started thinking of Europe.’ His ...
Behind this anti-establishment mood, which has rankled in British politics for many years now, lies the nastier ...
Forrest Gander’s​ first collection of poems appeared in 1988. He grew up in Virginia and his early work seemed ...
A champion self-advertiser, maven of the brag and the humblebrag, Whitman announces in the first pages of Specimen ...
It’s puzzling, unsettling even, to see ‘free speech’ rearing its head in public debate again, rousing passions which seemed long defunct. Wasn’t the doctrine definitively trumpeted by Milton and Locke ...