While Trump’s schemes to impose tariffs on Chinese, Canadian, Mexican and European imports have been taken ...

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

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No doubt, some individuals have always pulled levers behind the scenes to benefit themselves and their ...

When diva worship turns an artist into an icon, everyone ...

In his third conversation looking at the crisis in the Middle East, Adam talks to Mohamad Bazzi about Israel’s expansion of its war into Lebanon and the recent assassinations of Yahya Sinwar and ...

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I always like to say that Iranian cinema emerges out of a thousand years of poetry, and Canadian cinema emerges ...

Reagan’s capacity to inhabit and generate legend stemmed from his own impulse to substitute pleasing fictions for inconvenient facts – to the point that fiction replaced factuality altogether.

In July 1624, two artists met in Palermo during an outbreak of plague which killed thousands of people, including the city’s ruler. The younger artist, Anthony Van Dyck, made a quick pen and ink ...