Rule by sheer violence,’ Hannah Arendt wrote, ‘comes into play when power is being lost.’ She continued: ...

In the wreckage of the neoliberal order they once championed, there are a number of paths available to Europe’s ...

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 ...

Chimpanzees, New Caledonian crows – and now cows. The list of animals that use tools grew a little longer this ...

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

Safety is a trigger word for me,’ Aliyah says on the first day of the women’s circle in the documentary ...

Last month she decided to test her strong performance in the polls by calling a snap election on 8 February to Japan’s lower, more powerful house (loosely equivalent to the House of Commons, although ...

The destruction of Palestinian lives is now a base line in a holding pattern. The ferocious white heat of the past ...

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 ...

David Wengrow is professor of comparative archaeology at University College London. His books include What Makes Civilisation ...

The World Economic Forum in Davos is ending with talk of a rupture in world affairs, a collapse of international law, a descent into chaos and the rise of a new global order in which bullies rule like ...