After seventeen minutes the sky cleared. Seventeen minutes of rain was enough to flood the tents of thousands of families.
Schopenhauer has long held the title of gloomiest philosopher in history. He sees human existence not as grand ...
On 7 November 1965, Henry Solomons, the Labour MP for the constituency, died after a short illness. He had won the marginal seat from the Tories at the 1964 general election with a majority of 1181 ...
The killing of Palestinians has continued, sometimes surpassing pre-ceasefire levels and accelerating viciously in ...
The LRB is Europe’s leading magazine of books and ideas. Published twice a month, it provides a space for some of ...
Parry, who died last month, had a business card in the early 1990s that described him as ‘Jonty ...
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 ...
Streptomycetes are soil bacteria that could easily be mistaken for fungi, their cells snaking through the earth in ...
After the home secretary, Shabana Mahmood, announced the government’s new policies for ‘Restoring Order and Control’ in the House of Commons yesterday, one MP after another stood up to commend the ...