The LRB’s pioneering programme of podcast courses returns in 2024 with three new series, on satire, revolutionary thought in the 20th century, and truth and lies in the Ancient World. Spend next year ...
Many Jews today feel torn. On the one hand, they feel loyalty to Israel, the land of their fellow Jews, many of ...
Yezid Sayigh is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut.
William James is famous for two things: his work as a psychologist and philosopher, and his family. But before anything else he was a qualified doctor, who frequently pronounced on questions of bodily ...
Mairav Zonszein is a journalist and Senior Israel Analyst with Crisis Group. In the first of two episodes on the crisis in the Middle East, Adam Shatz is joined by Mairav Zonszein and Amjad Iraqi to ...
In the first of two episodes on the crisis in the Middle East, Adam Shatz is joined by Mairav Zonszein and Amjad Iraqi to discuss the experiences of Israeli Jews and Palestinian citizens of Israel.
W here you have ​ a girl and a looking-glass, or – in the case of one of Eley Williams’s short stories – a woman who sees her ...
At Yale, where Vance felt like a ‘cultural alien’, he learned that he could entertain his classmates with Mamaw and Papaw ...
In May 2023, I resigned as a (part-time) immigration judge after twenty years in the job. It was less a matter of conscience, ...
It would seem obvious that Watson’s priority is to manifest a voice, but this sort of punctuation addresses the eye ...
Binyavanga Wainaina became an African literary celebrity in 2005, when Granta published his instructions for travel writers, journalists and aid workers on ‘how to write about Africa’. ‘Be sure to ...
On 23 May 2014, a fire broke out in the Mackintosh Building of the Glasgow School of Art, destroying its library. The loss to the Mack, as it’s generally known, Glasgow’s most famous building and ...