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 ...
Shabana Mahmood is in a different situation from previous minority ethnic home secretaries who were accused of ...
Despite his nostalgia for monarchical institutions, de Gaulle keenly admired Clemenceau, a staunch republican. In his War ...
Postures: Jean Rhys in the Modern World, recently on display at London’s Michael Werner Gallery, does not try to cover all ...
The Strand, which today has its western limit at Trafalgar Square, was first recorded in the Roman period, as the ...