After seventeen minutes the sky cleared. Seventeen minutes of rain was enough to flood the tents of thousands of families.

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

The killing of Palestinians has continued, sometimes surpassing pre-ceasefire levels and accelerating viciously in ...

Despite the ban, more than 160,000 copies of La Question circulated in France, Algeria and beyond. In a preface, Jean-Paul Sartre wrote that Alleg had revealed the brutalising and inhumane structure ...

On 7 November 1965, Henry Solomons, the Labour MP for the constituency, died after a short illness. He had won the marginal ...

Schopenhauer has long held the title of gloomiest philosopher in history. He sees human existence not as grand ...

Parry, who died last month, had a business card in the early 1990s that described him as ‘Jonty ...

Streptomycetes are soil bacteria that could easily be mistaken for fungi, their cells snaking through the earth in ...

Refugeehood is not supposed to be like this. The ideal envisaged by the Refugee Convention is that refugee status ...

Shabana Mahmood is in a different situation from previous minority ethnic home secretaries who were accused of ...

There is truth in the superstition, medical validation for the old wives and their tales. A country’s maternal mortality rate (worryingly high in the UK) is measured as the number of deaths per ...