Ara Darzi released his report on the English National Health Service last month. To no one’s surprise, he finds ...

The Broadway cinema in Prestwick closed in 1966. It was converted into a bingo hall, then a squash court and ...

On Friday, 27 September, we felt the whole of Beirut shake. A huge plume of smoke was visible across the city.

For Biden, the killing of Nasrallah provided a ‘measure of justice’ for Hizbullah’s victims, from the 1983 bombings of the US ...

Abu Rayhan al-Biruni and Ibn Sina illustrate the region’s cosmopolitanism and ingenuity. While being grounded in ...

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

Labour members have long used the party conference to push for a more humanitarian approach to immigration and asylum. In Liverpool this week, however, at the redeveloped docks from which more than ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. By the end of 1895 Oscar Wilde’s life was in ruins as he sat in Reading Gaol facing public disgrace, bankruptcy and ...

Peter Green died last week at the age of 99. His many books include a Life of Alexander of Macedon, a history of the Hellenistic age, an account of the Sicilian expedition and translations of Homer, ...

A judge in Georgia recently struck down the six-week abortion ban. But total or near-total bans are still in place ...

Unlike with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 or Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait in 1990, the British media were slow to recognise Israel’s invasion of Lebanon on 1 October as an invasion. The BBC’s ...