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

Thucydides is often read these days as a pioneering political theorist, who identified the normative principles ...

Ten years ago Berta Cáceres, a campaigner against dams and mining projects that were displacing rural communities ...

Jeremy Gilbert is a professor of cultural and political theory at the University of East London, and the current editor of the journal New Formations.

Huey​ Long – Louisiana’s legendary governor, senator and would-be presidential candidate – loved the campaign trail. ‘Watch me vaudeville ’em,’ he would say ...

In 2014, Steve Ballmer bought the Los Angeles Clippers for a then-record $2 billion, rescuing the basketball team ...

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

Don’t use any of that damn smooth stuff.’ Born in 1893, Long was one of nine children; his father ran a livestock farm. As a young man, he was variously described, Thomas Patterson writes, as ...

CEO of the Bourse & Bazaar Foundation, a think tank focused on economic diplomacy, economic development, and economic justice in West Asia.

Mary Flannery O’Connor hadn’t heard of Faulkner until she was in her twenties and a student at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop (around this time she dropped ‘Mary’ from her name, to avoid sounding like ‘an ...

Around​ the year 1500, in Eisenach, Thuringia, a woman gave birth to a mouse. According to rumour, this ‘beautiful and virtuous’ woman had, during her pregnancy, encountered a dormouse on which a ...

Once at a gate with cherries. Know this quickly buried now or less to file history brief stuffed full of pen force, the time it takes to various accounts echoing in my library to ensure passage broke ...