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

I live in one of the south Minneapolis neighbourhoods that ICE and CBP have been pummelling for the last few weeks.

Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl half-time show was a magic trick that revealed what those who refer to other people as ...

Many politicians and journalists have deployed a variation on the phrase before they move on to the more comfortable business of chewing over the really big questions: did Mandelson betray his country ...

Peter Mandelson is a case study for the way the Westminster ecosystem protects its own until it is forced, by ...

My friend Mahmoud called to check on me at the beginning of January. We hadn’t been in touch for a while. I told ...

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

When I was at nursery school in Beijing in the 1970s, there was a teacher who seemed to find tireless pleasure ...

Can a plurality of reals be possible?” Mr Bradley asks, and answers, “No, impossible.”’ ‘He shows an intolerance to pluralism so extreme,’ James comments, ‘that I fancy few of his readers have been ...

Alexandre Kojève described his book on Hegel as ‘very bad’, and he had a point. His take on the Phenomenology of the Spirit is not only misleading but slapdash, dogmatic, frivolous and flamboyant. The ...

Barnett Newman with ‘Jericho’, late 1960s. Barnett Newman was an ‘eminence’ in the postwar art world, Amy Newman (no relation) writes in her exhaustive biography; at the time of his death in 1970 no ...