Edward Said and Late Style’ at the Southbank Centre on 9 March 2025, and other relevant writing from the LRB archive. To read ...

The British brought the system of administrative detention to Palestine when they were the mandatory power. According ...

On Sunday, 9 March, at Southbank Centre’s Queen Elizabeth Hall, the City of London Sinfonia and the London Review ...

In 1928, the V&A acquired a previously unknown portrait. It shows the Black Jamaican polymath Francis Williams (c. 1690-1762), dressed in a wig, surrounded by books and scientific instruments. Fara ...

Juan Camilo Hernández was born in Caldono, in south-west Colombia, in 1977. When he was sixteen he took part in a ...

Friedrich Merz, the leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and soon to be chancellor of Germany, announced ...

As the two coffins were driven through the crowd, a deep, sorrowful voice came from the loudspeakers. The sound of a violin rose as the voice of the man receded. I texted people in Beirut to confirm ...

During his martyrdom in 258 AD, St Lawrence, as he was being grilled alive by the Roman authorities, is said to have asked his persecutors to turn him over, since ‘I’m done on this side.’ He is ...

On the horizon is a legally unfettered behemoth capable of coercing organisations, negating rights, suppressing ...

S ir Paul Marshall ​ ’s emergence as a right-wing media tycoon has been rapid. A decade ago he was a Lib Dem donor; now he ...

Gcina Lepheana had been working deep in the illegal mine for five months when, in October last year, deliveries ...