Since the disputed elections of October 2024, protesters have gathered daily in front of the Georgian parliament building on Rustaveli Avenue in central Tbilisi. These days they wear creative face ...

What is the missing noun to which English refers: literature, language or both? If both, does English belong with ...

Seas are repetitive creatures, working in cycles of tides, migration and climate change, which is normally to say ...

D onald Trump ​ likes to tell us that ‘tariff’ is ‘the most beautiful word in the dictionary’. He does not remind us that the ...

I saw ​ the end of it then, I mean the end of it as it was, as my mother told the story of my father’s sudden deafness. The ...

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

Under the policy of Staatsräson, which has made the defence of Israel a central pillar of the German state, the ...

As well as raw talent and incredible athleticism, professional tennis ‘requires extraordinary psychological capacities’, Edmund Gordon wrote recently in the LRB: ‘obsessive focus, epic self-belief’.

is a wheel where they turn to tell him sorrow is gain. The way he sets his spine to the ironwork is a drag-line of grief: ...

In the West Papuan regency of Merauke, close to the border with Papua New Guinea, Indonesia is rapidly clearing land ...

As for the garden – yes, there can be golden flecks in it – there is a glow. And the shrubs and trees in her yard are in cone, globe and weeping shapes. Otherwise, it is undecorated.

The rarity of phosphorus makes it the single most limiting factor for the growth of biomass on Earth. It is, as Isaac Asimov puts it, ‘life’s bottleneck’ – the toll which must be paid by all matter ...