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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. In April this year, the US Supreme Court struck down Louisiana's voting map on the grounds that state lawmakers had ...

Durham, 1973. I was eight years old. There was a strange atmosphere in our house. Someone was visiting our father at the weekend, but no one would tell me, or Angus or Anna, my elder brother and ...

‘Tam o’ Shanter’ first appeared as a lengthy footnote in Francis Grose's Antiquities of Scotland (1791) after Robert Burns convinced Grose to include the ruined Alloway Kirk in his volume, and its ...