I thought,’ White wrote in his autobiographical masterpiece The Farewell Symphony (1997), ‘that never had a ...

Malak Mattar’s monumental 2024 black-and-white painting inspired by Guernica is entitled No Words (… for Gaza).

In a Facebook post from 2012, Alaa Abd el-Fattah, who had just spent time in Tora prison, south of Cairo, begs us not to accept as normal the fact of someone, anyone, being in prison. Insist, he urges ...

The Royal Museum of the Belgian Congo became the Royal Museum of Central Africa after Brussels choked back its fury ...

The United States was born in war and has waged a war of some sort in every year of its existence. Silicon Valley ...

All autobiography is inherently mendacious, if only by omission and with the intent of protecting the innocent. In ...

Last September, during an Israeli military incursion into the camp, one of our community health workers was shot while saving one of his colleagues and protecting residents. He has spent several ...

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

Georgi Gospodinov​ was 22 when Bulgarian communism collapsed in early 1990. ‘The end of our training,’ he has written, ...

I wanted to understand the figure of Riefenstahl in her development,’ Andres Veiel says, ‘without exculpating ...

There are no rules about what constitutes a crisis. Calls can be about an assault that took place days earlier or ...

Universities’ reliance on international students is only the most recent attempt to solve a broader problem, one ...