One way of thinking about fascism is to see it as historically specific: a reactionary mass movement produced by the economic and social chaos that engulfed Europe after the First World War. Fascism ...

Malak Mattar’s monumental 2024 black-and-white painting inspired by Guernica is entitled No Words (… for Gaza).

Universities’ reliance on international students is only the most recent attempt to solve a broader problem, one ...

The Royal Museum of the Belgian Congo became the Royal Museum of Central Africa after Brussels choked back its fury ...

The United States was born in war and has waged a war of some sort in every year of its existence. Silicon Valley ...

There are no rules about what constitutes a crisis. Calls can be about an assault that took place days earlier or ...

I wanted to understand the figure of Riefenstahl in her development,’ Andres Veiel says, ‘without exculpating ...

Uganda declared the outbreak over on 26 April. In total there had been fourteen reported cases, of whom four died ...

In Crotchet Castle, Thomas Love Peacock rejects the expectation that novelists should reveal the interiority of their characters, instead favouring the testing of opinions and ideas. His ‘novel of ...

In Social Topography of a Rural Community Steve Hindle describes the lives of 780 inhabitants of 176 households in ...

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