Several schoolchildren have been severely injured by police violence. A 16-year-old in Argenteuil may have lost the use of ...

‘N o period has writers who play more difficult games with fact and factuality than the Augustan,’ Barbara Everett wrote in 1985. ‘This helps to make Pope the most interesting and problematic . . .

The modern zoo is nearly two centuries old. The zoological gardens in Regent’s Park were established in 1828 by the inventor Humphry Davy and the colonial adventurer Stamford Raffles, founder of ...

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The idea that AI was an existential threat seemed faintly ludicrous in 2024: how could a program that simply issued a response to a prompt become a malevolent force? In the last few weeks, the way ...

For a little over a year, the theatre directors Milo Rau and Servane Dècle have been touring a play based on ...

The Israeli military claims that each individual strike in Gaza is justified but ignores their collective ...

In Iran, as elsewhere, GLP-1 agonists such as semaglutide and tirzepatide offer a chance to address obesity, improve organ functioning and treat various chronic health conditions. The drugs are also ...

Emily Wilson’s translation of the Odyssey, published in 2017, the first into English by a woman, was hailed as a ‘revelation’ by the New York Times and a ‘cultural landmark’ by the Guardian. With her ...

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

How can you be a serial killer if you have only one person to kill? How can two films be so different when they sound as if they ought to be exactly the same? These are questions prompted by Claude ...