Ara Darzi released his report on the English National Health Service last month. To no one’s surprise, he finds ...

Andrew O'Hagan and Deborah Friedell return to the Republican National Convention. They explore second day's theme, Make America Safe Again, and discuss how this convention compares to the last one ...

Many report still feeling like outsiders in the Netherlands. This legacy of the unspoken and unspeakable – of repression, in ...

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

Hassan Nasrallah’s death was announced on Saturday, 28 September, the anniversary of the death of the Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser, the father of Pan-Arabism. Nasser died of a heart attack in ...

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Immanuel Kant was against revolutions. In 1793 he described them as the work of ‘political criminals’ and ‘injustice in the highest degree’. He accepted, on the other hand, that they sometimes turned ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. Rosemary Hill begins a new four-part series looking at what people have thought about Stonehenge over the past few ...

On Friday, 27 September, we felt the whole of Beirut shake. A huge plume of smoke was visible across the city.

Blair never owned a mobile phone while prime minister and barely knew how to send an email. At the same time, he ...

Pankaj Mishra joins Adam Shatz to discuss The Golden Notebook, Doris Lessing’s formally brilliant and startlingly frank 1962 novel. In her portrait of ‘free women’ – unmarried, creatively ambitious, ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. Jane Ellen Harrison was Britain’s first female career academic, a maverick public intellectual burdened with the ...