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

Xiong’an is being built on a stretch of nondescript agricultural land about three times the size of New York City. The site ...

In November 1885, Friedrich Engels published an essay in the Commonweal, the journal of the Socialist League, with the title ‘How Not to Translate Marx’. The translator he had in mind was John ...

Last month, the Rwanda-backed March 23 Movement set up shadow administrations in key areas it has conquered in the ...

Tom Lowenstein, the poet and ethnographer, died on 21 March. His fieldwork in an Iñupiaq village in north-west Alaska began in the 1970s and resulted in seven books or more. Some were orthodox ...

The anthropologist Margaret Mead was just over five feet tall and had to stand on a suitcase to be seen above the lectern when she delivered her 1967 keynote address to the President’s Committee on ...

Dr Lennox Johnston, a Merseyside GP, took the train to London, intending to pluck ...

I woke up yesterday morning to a message from a friend in Karachi. It just said: ‘They’ve started again.’ I did not wonder who ‘they’ were. He could only have been referring to Israel. And I knew what ...