US foreign policy in South America used to differ from its approach to Central America and the Caribbean. In the ...

A shifting array of hundreds of reproductions showing the art and architecture of two millennia, carefully selected ...

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

Half acrobat, half can-can dancer, Picasso’s Salome kicks her leg up as Herod Antipas, corpulent and sagging, takes in the spectacle, flanked by his bride, dark-eyed Herodias. The king’s rheumy gaze ...

The language and conduct of Israel’s unceasing war against Gaza suggests that there is something more than the rational interests of a nation-state at play. The sheer extent of the carnage hints at a ...

David talks to Mark Ford and Seamus Perry, hosts of Political Poems, about what makes a great political poem. Can great poetry be ideological? How much does context matter? And is it possible to tell ...

In the last six months human rights officials at both the Council of Europe and the United Nations have written to the German authorities to remind them of their obligation to protect, rather than ...

More than three hundred British Library workers are on strike this week. They are demanding an inflation-proof pay rise, restoration for last year’s shortfall and an ‘end to non-payment of alternative ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. In 1908, Virginia Woolf wrote that she hoped to revolutionise the novel and ‘capture multitudes of things at ...