War amputees are a common sight in Odesa; I’ve had several rides from Bolt drivers with prosthetic limbs. The local athletes ...

I met the great Iranian novelist Mahmoud Dowlatabadi in 2006. We had the same publisher, and through them he sent me ...

Humanitarian aid has long served as cover for Israeli crimes. Under the Geneva Conventions, an occupying force ...

Lynn, DeLynn’s narrator/alter ego, looks back from adulthood at her final year of school. She knows there is something wrong ...

There’s a pleasing Cheshire usage that Garner uses throughout his books, plunder to mean ‘ponder’, and as far as he’s ...

In 2004, the House of Lords allowed the appeal of nine foreign nationals against their indefinite detention under the Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001. In his opinion, Lord Hoffmann argued ...

The Canongate Wall is a feature of the Scottish Parliament building in Holyrood, Edinburgh. Designed by Soraya ...

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

During a parliamentary debate on the Terrorism Bill in 2000, MPs asked whether the legislation could be used to proscribe Greenpeace as a terrorist organisation. The group had, in recent years, ...

On 6 December 2000, during a snowstorm, Joan Didion was sitting in the waiting room of an office in Manhattan reading a copy of National Geographic. She was lost in an article about polar bears and ...

On 2 June the British government finally published its Strategic Defence Review on the state of the UK armed forces. When it was commissioned, in July 2024, Keir Starmer described it as ‘first of its ...