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In February 2003, Sars – the first Sars – hit Toronto, carried back from Hong Kong by an elderly woman who’d been to a wedding. The outbreak . . .
In his Commentaries on the Laws of England, William Blackstone said that there is a right ‘of applying to the courts of justice for redress . . .
Dominic Raab’s campaign to replace the Human Rights Act began even before he entered Parliament in 2010. But he’s never explained how getting . . .
To accuse a father of incest or other forms of abuse proved disastrous for most mothers and children. Beyond the omnipresent influence of pre-existing . . .
At first sight, as you walk uphill along New Street, it looks as if a UFO has landed in Birmingham’s Victoria Square. As you get closer, it . . .
I have watched tornados whip at the waters of the Golden Horn like a hose (which is what, in Turkish, they are called). Last summer, gloopy marine . . .
Picketing railway workers are used to being confronted by irate commuters. Outside London’s St Pancras Station six years ago, when Eurostar . . .
There was an argument heading into this year’s NBA Finals about whether Stephen Curry needed to win a Finals MVP (most valuable player) to . . .
Updated in time for the queen’s Platinum Jubilee, even more writing about the Firm – ‘as accident-prone as the Kennedys,’ Jonathan Meades writes in his piece from the new issue, ‘but not...
Writing about teaching and learning by William Davies, Ian Jack, Jenny Turner, Thomas Jones, Lorna Finlayson, Paul Foot, Wang Xiuying, Marina Warner and Stefan Collini.
Writing about insect life by Edmund Gordon, James Meek, Miriam Rothschild, Richard Fortey, Hugh Pennington, Inga Clendinnen, Thomas Jones and Ange Mlinko.
Writing about science fiction by Jonathan Lethem, Fredric Jameson, Jenny Turner, Tom Shippey, Colin Burrow, Stephanie Burt, Thomas Jones, Margaret Anne Doody, Nick Richardson, Sherry Turkle and Rachel...
Writing about the BBC by James Butler, Stefan Collini, Marilyn Butler, Owen Bennett-Jones, Andrew O’Hagan, Jenny Turner, Jenny Diski, Karl Miller, Ian Jack, Lynsey Hanley and Hugo Williams.
Writing in the LRB archive by Will Self, Alice Spawls, Jenny Diski, Jamie Fisher, Jeremy Harding, Hilary Mantel, Thomas Jones, Louis Mackay, Daniel Soar, Lauren Oyler, Yasmine Seale and Ben Campbell.
Writing about drinking by Victor Mallet, Anne Carson, John Lanchester, Wendy Cope, Christopher Hitchens, Tom Jaine, Jenny Diski, Marina Warner, Clancy Martin and John Lloyd.
Writing about how (not) to stage a coup by Hilary Mantel, Thomas Jones, Perry Anderson, Patricia Beer, Christopher Hitchens, Ella George, Bruce Ackerman, Alexandra Reza, James Meek and John Perry.
Writing about saints by Eliot Weinberger, Patricia Beer, Anthony Grafton, Barbara Newman, Marina Warner, Peter Burke, Elaine Showalter, Eamon Duffy, J.L. Nelson, Stuart Airlie and Tom Shippey.
Writing about superstition by Matthew Sweeney, Hilary Mantel, Malcolm Gaskill, Patricia Lockwood, Theodore Zeldin, Katherine Rundell, Peter Campbell, Barbara Herrnstein Smith, Angela Carter, Ian Penman...
Childhood memoirs in the LRB archive by Hilary Mantel, Richard Wollheim, Lorna Sage, Edward Said, Mary-Kay Wilmers, Rosemary Dinnage, David Sylvester, Jenny Diski, Sean Wilsey, Lorna Finlayson, Yun Sheng...
Writing about mental health by Jenny Diski, George Hyde, Stephen Sharp, Deborah Friedell, Susan Eilenberg, Ian Hacking, Wilson Firth, John Lanchester, Megan Vaughan and Mike Jay.
Writing about space by Carolin Crawford, Tim Radford, Nick Richardson, Jenny Diski, Anne Enright, James Hamilton-Paterson, Serafina Cuomo, Thomas Jones, John Leslie, Rivka Galchen, J.E. McGuire and Chris...
Writing about the police by Barbara Wootton, Alice Spawls, Adam Reiss, Ronan Bennett, Thomas Jones, Paul Foot, Katrina Forrester, Melanie McFadyean, Matt Foot and Christopher Tayler.
Writing about political corruption from the LRB archive by Peter Geoghegan, Paul Foot, Deborah Friedell, Conor Gearty, Eliane Glaser, Perry Anderson, Simon Jenkins, Jenny Diski, Uri Avnery and Sidney Blumenthal.
Writing about Wales in the LRB archive by Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite, Dinah Birch, Lorna Sage, Terence Hawkes, Paul Keegan, Adam Phillips, Thomas Jones, Ian Hamilton, Rosalind Mitchison and John Barrell.
James Meek’s reports from the Ukrainian capital in the week before the Russian invasion.
Writing about party-going by Alan Bennett, Dinah Birch, Anne Carson, Tim Dee, Jenny Diski, Lorna Sage, Emily Witt, Bee Wilson, Steven Shapin, A.J.P. Taylor, Ronan Bennett and Andrew O’Hagan.
For the duration of the conference, in place of our Paper Cuts newsletter (though just as timely), we’ll be sharing writing about water, fire, earth and air from the LRB archive. Amartya Sen’s piece...
For the duration of the conference, in place of our Paper Cuts newsletter (though just as timely), we’ll be sharing writing about water, air, fire and earth from the LRB archive. Meehan Crist’s...
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