London Review of Books11h
Canvassing Las Vegas
Our first stop in east Las Vegas was drenched in ersatz gore: fake zombie limbs, scattered femurs, a plastic skull.
London Review of Books5d
Return to Baghdad
The enduring impact of war, poverty and neoliberal transformation are visible everywhere. Late Ottoman areas of ...
London Review of Books5d
BP in Azerbaijan
By 1993, BP had already spent millions of pounds in Azerbaijan. But it was still a long way from being ready to ...
London Review of Books12d
The Stone and the Unicorn
The first person to grasp the marketing potential of the unicorn seems to have been King James I of Scotland.
London Review of Books4d
On the Doorstep Jan-Werner Müller
Analogies with 20th-century fascism are not particularly helpful for understanding our times, but one parallel ...
London Review of Books11d
At the Berlin Staatsoper
When Verdi’s Nabucco was first performed in 1842, Milanese audiences were quick to see their own situation under Austrian ...
London Review of Books5d
Early Modern Maths
On budget day, Tom Johnson joins Malin Hay to discuss the revolution in numeracy and use of numbers in Early Modern England, from the black and white squares of the ‘reckoning cloth’ to logarithmic ...
London Review of Books14d
Par for the Coarsening
It’s always a shock when imagined characters from novels are given a kind of reality by TV actors. Everybody has their own idea of Mr Darcy or Leopold Bloom, Mrs Dalloway or Emma Bovary, and most ...
London Review of Books12d
On Binyavanga Wainaina
In the latest issue of the LRB, Jeremy Harding reviews How to Write about Africa, a posthumous collection of essays and stories by Binyavanga Wainaina, one of postcolonial Africa’s great anglophone ...