I always like to say that Iranian cinema emerges out of a thousand years of poetry, and Canadian cinema emerges ...

When diva worship turns an artist into an icon, everyone ...

Romania is one of the poorest and most corrupt countries in the EU. One-third of the population either live in ...

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

The new CCRC was independent of the government, free to investigate without political interference. It would have sixty staff ...

The novels weren’t the point. The point of Nan Shepherd was herself. My mother described what a thrill it was to ...

Omar Dahi is a professor of economics at Hampshire College and a research associate at the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst ...

Loubna Mrie is a Syrian activist and writer living in the United States. Adam Shatz is joined by Loubna Mrie and Omar Dahi to discuss the fall of Bashar al-Assad in Syria and the future of the country ...

In last November’s election, a majority of California voters declined to outlaw forced labour among ...

In the second of three conversations about the crisis in the Middle East, recorded shortly before the death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was reported, Yezid Sayigh talks to Adam Shatz about why he ...

This week’s Great Political Fiction is Ivan Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons (1862), the definitive novel about the politics – and emotions – of intergenerational conflict. How did Turgenev manage to write ...

Becca Rothfeldis the non-fiction book critic for the Washington Post. Her essay col­lect­ion, All Things Are Too Small, came out last year.