The conflict in West Papua may be the world’s most unequal war: raids on military bases have improved the West ...

Amia Srinivasan is the Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at All Souls College, Oxford and a contributing ...

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

The annual World Conker Championships take place every October in the grounds of the Shuckburgh Arms, a pub in ...

I have studied mankind and know my heart; I am not made like any one I have been acquainted with, perhaps like no one in existence; if not better, I at least claim originality, and whether Nature has ...

Volume 48, 2026 UK and Rest of World Estimated Arrival Dates ...

J. Robert Lennon joins Tom to discuss Elmore Leonard’s rules for writers and the ways in which great crime novels will always defy the prescriptions of the genre.

What must it have been like to live cheek by jowl with the man you’d cuckolded? In the early 19th century, for a woman’s cavalier servente to occupy the same household as her husband was not uncommon, ...

On the eve of the first lockdown, I made my way to the Hammersmith Apollo to attend a performance by Whitney Houston. It was a chill, ominous night and the people outside the venue were wide-eyed and ...

This is an essay about hands and handwriting. I think of handwriting as a way to organise thought into shapes. I like shapes. I like organising them. But because of recent neurological changes in my ...

The world you see depends on where you start from. Imagine that the centre of the known universe is the Milwaukee-Chicago corridor, on the shores of Lake Michigan, once the heartland and crossroads . ...

Chemical reactions reflect human dramas, which reflect celestial movements, which reflect the mind of the divine. The alchemist’s lab work and the philosophy were inextricable: working with material ...