In The Impact of Labour, Maurice Cowling wrote that politics in the 1920s was ‘fifty or sixty people’ in tension with one another. The Battle of Ideas, which packed out Church House for a weekend in ...
After seventeen minutes the sky cleared. Seventeen minutes of rain was enough to flood the tents of thousands of families.
The LRB is Europe’s leading magazine of books and ideas. Published twice a month, it provides a space for some of ...
From 1819 to 1831, Colombia and Venezuela were part of the same country (Gran Colombia also included Ecuador, Panama and parts of Brazil and Peru). In ‘Me voy Pa’Cali’, Oscar D’León sang: ‘Listen, my ...
Schopenhauer has long held the title of gloomiest philosopher in history. He sees human existence not as grand ...
Parry, who died last month, had a business card in the early 1990s that described him as ‘Jonty ...
On 7 November 1965, Henry Solomons, the Labour MP for the constituency, died after a short illness. He had won the marginal seat from the Tories at the 1964 general election with a majority of 1181 ...
Europe’s leading magazine of ideas, published twice a month. Book reviews and essays (and much more online) renowned for their fearlessness, range and elegance.
The killing of Palestinians has continued, sometimes surpassing pre-ceasefire levels and accelerating viciously in ...
Despite the ban, more than 160,000 copies of La Question circulated in France, Algeria and beyond. In a preface, Jean-Paul Sartre wrote that Alleg had revealed the brutalising and inhumane structure ...
Streptomycetes are soil bacteria that could easily be mistaken for fungi, their cells snaking through the earth in ...
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