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

There is truth in the superstition, medical validation for the old wives and their tales. A country’s maternal mortality rate (worryingly high in the UK) is measured as the number of deaths per ...

Spain’s provincial authorities were usually compliant, González said, in part because the exhumations don’t cost them any ...

We still live in the long shadow of Habsburg disintegration. In addition to the lingering legacy of 19th-century ...

From the revelations about Jimmy Savile in 2012 to the gender pay gap debacle in 2017, the BBC was for many years ...

In Ruth, Kate Riley layers two views of the church: on the one hand, a hidden but unquestionable authority, ‘like ...

The use of verse to suggest an LLM’s human-like capacities taps into a tradition where those capacities are ...

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

The use of verse to suggest an LLM’s human-like capacities taps into a tradition where those capacities are already being used in an artificial schema. Rhyme and metre are relatively simple linguistic ...

The day before James Watson arrived to deliver the 2013 Michael Davys Lecture in Oxford, I received an email from ...

Most women who undertake IVF will have their embryos screened for genetic abnormalities. Clinics in some parts of the world also offer to select an embryo for implantation based on genetic markers for ...