The Lebanese novelist Elias Khoury died yesterday at the age of 76. When his early book The Little Mountain (1977) ...

The Saturday Review led the way in exploiting these conditions, and it was soon joined by the new monthly magazines that were ...

The question of what computers can’t do was posed in 1972 by the philosopher Hubert Dreyfus. Dreyfus’s answer ...

The legal scholar George Fletcher, writing about political changes in Eastern Europe after the fall of Communism, called the ...

Freud was always moving on, though the ending could be frayed. When the break-up was especially traumatic, it effected ...

A video posted on 26 August shows Alice Kisiyia, a Palestinian from Beit Jala, standing in front of her land, which Israeli settlers have taken over and fenced off from her. They sit at her family ...

Young Kenyans are frustrated by a lack of economic opportunities and public services, characterising themselves as ...

Bibi Rabbiyah Khan told me that she worried about her children and grandchildren. Her family had moved to London in the 1960s, when she was eight years old, and she recalled her father joining efforts ...

This episode is a chapter from Complicated Women by Bee Wilson, a new LRB audiobook, based on pieces first published in the London Review of Books. Wilson explores the lives of ten figures, from Lola ...

This week, a chapter from a new LRB audiobook, Becoming a Philosopher: Spinoza to Sartre by Jonathan Rée. This collection of ten biographical pieces, read by Rée, describes the lives of some of the ...