The 9 January attack, which left six thousand Kyiv housing blocks without heating, was far from the first Russian assault on Ukraine’s energy grid – it has been their strategy since autumn 2022. But ...

As he unearthed archival material and remembered his youth spent in cinemas, the shape of The Secret Agent began to emerge. A projectionist interviewed in the documentary became the inspiration for a ...

Jameel Jaffer is director of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia.

De Doctrina Christiana matters because it mattered to Milton. You can ignore it and still enjoy his poetry, but if ...

Method of Mechanical Theorems is a letter from Archimedes to Eratosthenes, the head of the library of Alexandria and a renowned philosopher in his own right. Most of it is devoted to proving ...

Other favourite monsters of modernity were similarly re-created: the most familiar element of the werewolf myth, the fatal silver bullet, was devised in 1941 for the Hollywood movie The Wolf Man, and ...

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

Since her death, much of what was said by and about Bardot feels even less trustworthy than it was in her lifetime.

Art in Tudor England was more than just decoration. Occupants of a precarious throne, passed down through a series ...

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

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 ...