On the morning of the US presidential election, my twelve-year-old son told me that Trump was going to win: ‘All ...

The polycrisis that is unfolding demands not a return to the status quo but urgent, progressive answers both at home ...

The next morning, the city was silent. DC is openly hostile to Trump: more than 90 per cent of voters backed ...

In an episode of the Simpsons from 1995, the evil tycoon Montgomery Burns bribes Krusty the Clown into supporting his entry in a local film competition. When Krusty ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. Adam Shatz is joined by Jamelle Bouie and Deborah Friedell to pick through the results and implications of Trump’s ...

If you’re looking for advice on sustaining a marriage, or robbing a grave, or performing liver surgery, then a series of self-help stories by a 14th-century Spanish prince is a good place to start.

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Jamelle Bouie is a columnist for The New York Times. Read anywhere with the London Review of Books app, available now from the App Store for Apple devices, Google Play for Android devices and Amazon ...

‘Even blindfolded,’ Emanuel Litvinoff wrote of the interwar East End in Journey Through a Small Planet (1972), ‘I’d have known where we were by the smell of the different streets – reek of rotten ...

At PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh on 4 November, teams of ushers were handing out signs that said: ‘Trump will fix ...