War amputees are a common sight in Odesa; I’ve had several rides from Bolt drivers with prosthetic limbs. The local athletes ...

I met the great Iranian novelist Mahmoud Dowlatabadi in 2006. We had the same publisher, and through them he sent me ...

Humanitarian aid has long served as cover for Israeli crimes. Under the Geneva Conventions, an occupying force ...

There’s a pleasing Cheshire usage that Garner uses throughout his books, plunder to mean ‘ponder’, and as far as he’s ...

Lynn, DeLynn’s narrator/alter ego, looks back from adulthood at her final year of school. She knows there is something wrong ...

Its funding structure meant that Cannes was originally described as a ‘state festival’; invitations were sent out by the ...

Jonathan Healey is a historian at Oxford. The Blood in Winter: A Nation Descends, 1642 is out now.

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

The Canongate Wall is a feature of the Scottish Parliament building in Holyrood, Edinburgh. Designed by Soraya ...

Gulbadan Begum was the daughter of the founder of the Mughal Empire. She is the only Mughal woman known to have ...

British generals and politicians keep warning that the UK needs to be ready for imminent war or – in the government’s ...