In late December, as demonstrations swelled across Iran, I was frantically trying to get in touch with my family when a friend returning from the protests wrote to me: ‘We are full of hope. There is ...

In late December, as demonstrations swelled across Iran, I was frantically trying to get in touch with my family when ...

Seamus Perry delivered this Winter Lecture at Conway Hall on 30 January 2026. Seamus Perry is a fellow of Balliol College and professor of English at the University of Oxford. He has published ...

The 9 January attack, which left six thousand Kyiv housing blocks without heating, was far from the first Russian assault on Ukraine’s energy grid – it has been their strategy since autumn 2022. But ...

Peter Mandelson is a case study for the way the Westminster ecosystem protects its own until it is forced, by ...

As he unearthed archival material and remembered his youth spent in cinemas, the shape of The Secret Agent began to emerge. A projectionist interviewed in the documentary became the inspiration for a ...

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

My friend Mahmoud called to check on me at the beginning of January. We hadn’t been in touch for a while. I told ...

In 2023, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution to ask the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ...

I live in one of the south Minneapolis neighbourhoods that ICE and CBP have been pummelling for the last few weeks.

Since her death, much of what was said by and about Bardot feels even less trustworthy than it was in her lifetime.

Art in Tudor England was more than just decoration. Occupants of a precarious throne, passed down through a series ...