This piece was written before Iran imposed an internet blackout on 8 January.Six months ago I thought about buying a ...

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

A shifting array of hundreds of reproductions showing the art and architecture of two millennia, carefully selected ...

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

US foreign policy in South America used to differ from its approach to Central America and the Caribbean. In the ...

The choice of narco-trafficking as the pretext is partly motivated by a desire to skirt even the feeble murmurs ...

Half acrobat, half can-can dancer, Picasso’s Salome kicks her leg up as Herod Antipas, corpulent and sagging, takes in the spectacle, flanked by his bride, dark-eyed Herodias. The king’s rheumy gaze ...

The annual World Conker Championships take place every October in the grounds of the Shuckburgh Arms, a pub in rural Northamptonshire. The 2024 event was overshadowed by cheating allegations, which ...

On 16 October the Associated Press reported that a ‘clash’ between the Indonesian military (TNI) and the West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB) had left fourteen people dead. According to the AP, ...

The life of the tenth Ottoman sultan, Suleyman, known in Europe as the Magnificent and in Turkey as the Lawgiver, has the trappings of a Greek tragedy or a soap opera. There is murder, sex, duplicity ...

The alchemist in his laboratory was a popular subject for Dutch painters of the 17th century because it allowed them to show off their skill with light. Mattheus van Helmont’s A Savant in His Cabinet, ...