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 ...
After seventeen minutes the sky cleared. Seventeen minutes of rain was enough to flood the tents of thousands of families.
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 ...
L ate ​ in Claire-Louise Bennett’s novel Big Kiss, Bye-Bye, the unnamed protagonist goes to Montevideo to participate in a ‘panel discussion about violent scenes from movies’. She had hesitated to ...
Postures: Jean Rhys in the Modern World, recently on display at London’s Michael Werner Gallery, does not try to cover all ...
In his great essay on Surrealism from 1929 Walter Benjamin too underscored its anarchistic dimension. The Surrealists were ‘the first to liquidate the sclerotic liberal-moral-humanistic ideal of ...
Anne Higonnet is a professor of art history at Barnard College, Columbia University. She is​ the queen of excess, who teaches us the lessons of history with shepherdess costumes and lace ruffles.
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 ...
He was born in 1874 and spent his first eleven years in San Francisco, where the Frost family managed on very little, ...