Refugeehood is not supposed to be like this. The ideal envisaged by the Refugee Convention is that refugee status ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

Seamus and Mark look at four elegies written for family members, ranging from the romantic period to the 2010s, each of which avoids, deliberately or not, what Freud described as the work of mourning.

The percolating instrumentation of ‘New York’, Ja Rule’s piercing 2004 posse cut, was playing on my TV, and ...

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

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

At the end of the 20th century and across the first decade of the 21st, a swathe of countries across Latin America elected left-wing governments in what became known ...