In last November’s election, a majority of California voters declined to outlaw forced labour among ...
In the second of three conversations about the crisis in the Middle East, recorded shortly before the death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was reported, Yezid Sayigh talks to Adam Shatz about why he ...
In this episode of the LRB podcast, Neal Ascherson talks to Thomas Jones about his life and career, from his time as propaganda secretary for the Uganda National Congress to the moment he witnessed ...
Your browser does not support the audio element. Pankaj Mishra joins Adam Shatz to discuss his recent LRB Winter Lecture, in which he explores Israel’s ...
Children’s fiction has its own peculiar power: like a swordstick in an umbrella, it can flash sharp at unexpected moments. Taken seriously, it can work not just to educate but to transform and ...
How many Stanisław Lems were there? Five (at least), according to Jonathan Lethem. James Meek reports from Mykolaiv and the area of southern Ukraine that has become a crucial battleground in the war, ...
In 1946 Evelyn Waugh declared that 20th-century society – ‘the century of the common man’, as he put it – was so degenerate that satire was no longer possible. But before reaching that conclusion he ...
Starmer’s strategy of modest progress and alliance-building could be scuppered by the fiscal hawks in his ...
As Elvis’s only child, Lisa Marie Presley was burdened from birth with extraordinary, largely unwanted fame. Before her death in 2023, she spent years as tabloid fodder, less for her sporadic music ...
Your browser does not support the audio element. When Deborah Friedell and Adam Thirlwell met twenty years ago, they started a discussion about Jewish identity they ...
Your browser does not support the audio element. In the second episode of her short series looking at why Stonehenge has occupied such an important place in the story ...