The few optimists in Labour claim that polling numbers aren’t meaningful this far from an election: faced with ...

Suleyman came to the throne in 1520, when he was 26. That may sound young, but he was in good company: Francis I, king of ...

The 400th anniversary of James VI and I’s death has been marked by several new approaches to the reign that gave ...

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

Pepys himself was remembered, if at all, as a naval administrator who’d had a compulsion for buying up printed paper. The ...

I n September ​ , a suitcase filled with sculptural odds and ends was discovered beneath a spiral staircase in Louise ...

Narges Mohammadi, who was jailed in November 2021 and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2023, was punched in the chest by ...

In The Madman’s Library, Edward Brooke-Hitching asked if a work of literature written on a shirt could be called ...

Reading the work​ that Susan Howe has produced over the past half century, one marvels at the consistency and depth ...

Chemical reactions reflect human dramas, which reflect celestial movements, which reflect the mind of the divine.

In the last six months human rights officials at both the Council of Europe and the United Nations have written to ...

But young Palestinians have never forgotten the anger of earlier generations over the giveaway of lands they stood to govern ...