Posters lining the walkway towards the opera house before the première of Luca Guadagnino’s new staging of Klinghoffer carried a photo of a woman in Gaza dwarfed by a pile of rubble, captioned (in ...
The line between making a fiction and telling a lie has been blurry at least since Homer, and liars – from Odysseus and Iago to Austen’s Wickham and beyond – have often played central parts within ...
In ninth grade English Mrs X required us to memorise and recite a poem and so I asked the Topeka High librarian to direct me to the shortest poem she knew and she ...
On my first day as a fellow at the American Academy in Berlin, in the middle of January, one of the other new arrivals, a German woman who’s lived in the States for three decades, remarked that the ...
Subimago Tomorrow’s dancer on the water’s sticky lip hurrying out of her husk – a lush fluttering as she struggles into late noon light, breaking all the knots untangling from her own lost corpse, its ...
The LRB is Europe’s leading magazine of books and ideas. Published twice a month, it provides a space for some of ...
In the month since the ceasefire on 8 April, Trump’s rhetoric has swung erratically between talk of total victory ...
Whether or not the story is true, an appeal to hasard seemed to resonate with those who lived through the dislocation of the post-revolutionary years. Demobilised soldiers and rural immigrants swelled ...
‘I’ve had no income at all,’ Mitra said. ‘If I didn’t live with my family, I don’t know how I would manage.’ Instability has become a permanent condition. Under such circumstances, trust between ...
Charles III’s state visit to the US occasioned a good deal of commentary either celebrating the ...
The successful passage of the 2026 Tobacco and Vapes Act into law is a major milestone on the journey towards ...