A shifting array of hundreds of reproductions showing the art and architecture of two millennia, carefully selected ...

US foreign policy in South America used to differ from its approach to Central America and the Caribbean. In the ...

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

Half acrobat, half can-can dancer, Picasso’s Salome kicks her leg up as Herod Antipas, corpulent and sagging, takes in the spectacle, flanked by his bride, dark-eyed Herodias. The king’s rheumy gaze ...

The politics of migration have driven some of the most consequential changes in Britain’s recent history and look set to dominate the next general election. Since the end of Rishi Sunak’s government, ...

In December 1823, President James Monroe used his annual message to Congress to outline what would later become known as the Monroe Doctrine. ‘The American continents’, he said, were no longer to be ...

I enrolled at the Islamic University of Gaza in 2022. As I started my second year, I hoped I would do well enough to get a scholarship to spend the second semester as an exchange student at a ...

David talks to Mark Ford and Seamus Perry, hosts of Political Poems, about what makes a great political poem. Can great poetry be ideological? How much does context matter? And is it possible to tell ...

The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia and the World’s Most Coveted Microchip by Stephen Witt. Bodley Head, 248 pp., £25, April 2025, 978 1 84792 827 6 The Nvidia Way: Jensen Huang and the Making ...

The language and conduct of Israel’s unceasing war against Gaza suggests that there is something more than the rational interests of a nation-state at play. The sheer extent of the carnage hints at a ...