Last Thursday evening, more than twenty Metropolitan police officers – some armed with tasers – broke down the ...

Xiong’an is being built on a stretch of nondescript agricultural land about three times the size of New York City. The site ...

Ekrem İmamoğlu, the mayor of Istanbul, was arrested early in the morning of Wednesday, 19 March, on two charges ...

In November 1885, Friedrich Engels published an essay in the Commonweal, the journal of the Socialist League, with the title ‘How Not to Translate Marx’. The translator he had in mind was John ...

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

Last month, the Rwanda-backed March 23 Movement set up shadow administrations in key areas it has conquered in the ...

As well as a flurry of executive orders, during the first weeks of his second term President Trump signed into law the Laken Riley Act, which stipulates that undocumented immigrants arrested for ...

When Wuthering Heights was published in December 1847, many readers didn’t know what to make of it: one reviewer called it ‘a compound of vulgar depravity and unnatural horrors’. In this extended ...

Tom Lowenstein, the poet and ethnographer, died on 21 March. His fieldwork in an Iñupiaq village in north-west Alaska began in the 1970s and resulted in seven books or more. Some were orthodox ...