In the wreckage of the neoliberal order they once championed, there are a number of paths available to Europe’s ...

Last month she decided to test her strong performance in the polls by calling a snap election on 8 February to Japan’s lower, more powerful house (loosely equivalent to the House of Commons, although ...

Newman railed against the machinations of art critics despite being expert at them. There is ‘no such thing as art ...

For the journalist Dom Phillips, the Javari Valley represented a test for the Amazon and its future. ‘More threatened than it ...

Good luck itself has a releasing effect on the spine, she was surprised to discover. She counted on some extra good luck and ...

Adam Shatz gave this LRB Winter Lecture at Conway Hall on 16 January 2026. Adam Shatz is the LRB ’s US editor. He is the ...

The campaign in the north-east aims to bring an end to the Democratic Autonomous Administration in North and East Syria, more commonly known as Rojava – the largest territorial holdout from the time ...

Her unglamorous look – the double-knit suits, undyed greying hair and big handbag – somehow made her seem ‘more radical and genuinely young’ than anyone on campus. But she was not young. Each pivot ...

Years of austerity alongside the rise of an increasingly kleptocratic and predatory elite have steadily eroded the ...

Too much studying is harmful,’ Mao insisted, noting that few top scorers in the keju had gone on to accomplish great things. Two years later, the education system collapsed in the Cultural Revolution.

In​ a crowded conference room in January 2025, Hossein Marashi, secretary-general of the Executives of Reconstruction Party ...