In mid-July, Donald Trump railed on primetime TV against alleged foreign interference in US presidential elections. While commentators were sceptical, they largely ignored the long history of US ...

In The Princess Bride, Wallace Shawn’s character, Vizzini, cries ‘Inconceivable!’ every time something doesn’t go according to his plans. His hired swordsman, Inigo Montoya (Mandy Patinkin), ...

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

It has been a bad few weeks for Fifa and its president, Gianni Infantino, and therefore a good few weeks for ...

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Breillat has written and directed fifteen feature films since 1976. One of their major themes is the possibility of taking ...

The most obvious question is not whether J.D. Vance believes what he claims to believe, but why, if he believes it, ...

In September 2024, during his presidential campaign, Donald Trump cast Springfield, Ohio as the star of his mass deportation plans. The Rust Belt city was the damsel in distress; the villains were ...

In Middlemarch, Tom McCarthy argues, George Eliot uses her ‘study of provincial life’ as a Trojan Horse to smuggle the continental philosophy of Spinoza and Hegel into the vicarages of middle England.

Many thinkers have characterised modernity by its investment in the idea of pluralism, ‘of things being various’, in Louis MacNeice’s phrase. How do the virtues of plurality and difference fit with ...

Is writing a poem work? In the first episode of their series exploring the ways in which poetry responds to our personal and collective challenges, Sarah Howe and Sandeep Parmar start by considering ...