After seventeen minutes the sky cleared. Seventeen minutes of rain was enough to flood the tents of thousands of families.

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

The killing of Palestinians has continued, sometimes surpassing pre-ceasefire levels and accelerating viciously in ...

Despite the ban, more than 160,000 copies of La Question circulated in France, Algeria and beyond. In a preface, Jean-Paul Sartre wrote that Alleg had revealed the brutalising and inhumane structure ...

On 7 November 1965, Henry Solomons, the Labour MP for the constituency, died after a short illness. He had won the marginal ...

Some parishioners morphed into willing Protestants; defiant Catholics – recusants – refused to attend services; other ...

Schopenhauer has long held the title of gloomiest philosopher in history. He sees human existence not as grand ...

Parry, who died last month, had a business card in the early 1990s that described him as ‘Jonty ...

Streptomycetes are soil bacteria that could easily be mistaken for fungi, their cells snaking through the earth in ...

Shabana Mahmood is in a different situation from previous minority ethnic home secretaries who were accused of ...

The day before James Watson arrived to deliver the 2013 Michael Davys Lecture in Oxford, I received an email from his personal physician in New York asking me to arrange for him to be seen by ‘one of ...

Refugeehood is not supposed to be like this. The ideal envisaged by the Refugee Convention is that refugee status ...