An Anglo-American audience is a mixed blessing for an Irish artist. Pro: you get their money. Con: their opinions, ...

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

There’s a pleasing Cheshire usage that Garner uses throughout his books, plunder to mean ‘ponder’, and as far as he’s ...

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Humanitarian aid has long served as cover for Israeli crimes. Under the Geneva Conventions, an occupying force ...

Its funding structure meant that Cannes was originally described as a ‘state festival’; invitations were sent out by the ...

Lynn, DeLynn’s narrator/alter ego, looks back from adulthood at her final year of school. She knows there is something wrong ...

I met the great Iranian novelist Mahmoud Dowlatabadi in 2006. We had the same publisher, and through them he sent me ...

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

Jonathan Healey is a historian at Oxford. The Blood in Winter: A Nation Descends, 1642 is out now.