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 ...

In 1958, the French authorities banned Henri Alleg’s memoir, La Question, shortly after it was published. Alleg had been the editor of the daily Alger républicain, already banned in 1955. His book ...

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 ...

Streptomycetes are soil bacteria that could easily be mistaken for fungi, their cells snaking through the earth in ...

Refugeehood is not supposed to be like this. The ideal envisaged by the Refugee Convention is that refugee status ...

I am 22 weeks pregnant. During this pregnancy – my fourth; I have two children already and had a miscarriage in February – I have become unduly superstitious, increasingly preoccupied by the idea of ...