Last month she decided to test her strong performance in the polls by calling a snap election on 8 February to Japan’s lower, ...

For the journalist Dom Phillips, the Javari Valley represented a test for the Amazon and its future. ‘More threatened than it ...

Newman railed against the machinations of art critics despite being expert at them. There is ‘no such thing as art ...

Good luck itself has a releasing effect on the spine, she was surprised to discover. She counted on some extra good luck and ...

Too much studying is harmful,’ Mao insisted, noting that few top scorers in the keju had gone on to accomplish great things.

Years of austerity alongside the rise of an increasingly kleptocratic and predatory elite have steadily eroded the ...

It sometimes feels as if we shall never hear the last of the Mitfords. What Jessica, one of Deborah Devonshire’s ...

But Ravn makes it clear from the start that no argument is equal to our sheer emotional susceptibility to made things: we are ...

Adam Shatz gave this LRB Winter Lecture at Conway Hall on 16 January 2026. Adam Shatz is the LRB ’s US editor. He is the ...

In​ a crowded conference room in January 2025, Hossein Marashi, secretary-general of the Executives of Reconstruction Party and brother-in-law of Iran’s former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, ...

Assuming she remains prime minister after this month’s election, Takaichi Sanae will focus on the immediate economic challenges facing Japan: high taxes, inflation, low wages and the cost of living.

The campaign in the north-east aims to bring an end to the Democratic Autonomous Administration in North and East Syria, more commonly known as Rojava – the largest territorial holdout from the time ...