On​ the morning of 18 April 2023, the chess grandmaster Ding Liren was discussing tactics with his coach. He was ...

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Tariq Ali’s loose and digressive book is many things: a history of a left-wing elite and its enemies since the ...

The era in which Strabo lived, the saddle between the first centuries bc and ad, was highly receptive to kolossourgiai. The ...

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This was also the year that Marianne Faithfull recorded what was to become her most celebrated album, Broken English. Her music career wasn’t one of solid output and solid progress. She didn’t gather ...

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

Much of what was great about Chris Jefferies was used to attack him and destroy his reputation when the media, ...

Music critic Ian Penman is back with a pioneering book of essays alluding to a lost moment in musical history ‘when cultures collided and a cross-generational and “cross-colour” awareness was born’.

Indonesia was the first country to declare independence in the wake of the Second World War, shortly after the surrender of Japan, which had occupied what was then known as the Dutch East Indies since ...