Our first stop in east Las Vegas was drenched in ersatz gore: fake zombie limbs, scattered femurs, a plastic skull.
The enduring impact of war, poverty and neoliberal transformation are visible everywhere. Late Ottoman areas of ...
The 29th UN Climate Change Conference begins in Baku on 11 November. For the third year in a row, as a recent editorial in the Financial Times pointed out, COP is being hosted ‘in an authoritarian ...
The first person to grasp the marketing potential of the unicorn seems to have been King James I of Scotland.
Analogies with 20th-century fascism are not particularly helpful for understanding our times, but one parallel ...
When Verdi’s Nabucco was first performed in 1842, Milanese audiences were quick to see their own situation under Austrian ...
It’s always a shock when imagined characters from novels are given a kind of reality by TV actors. Everybody has ...
On budget day, Tom Johnson joins Malin Hay to discuss the revolution in numeracy and use of numbers in Early Modern England, from the black and white squares of the ‘reckoning cloth’ to logarithmic ...
In the latest issue of the LRB, Jeremy Harding reviews How to Write about Africa, a posthumous collection of essays and stories by Binyavanga Wainaina, one of postcolonial Africa’s great anglophone ...
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