Trump’s most shocking move to influence the Honduran electorate was to pardon the former president Juan Orlando ...

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 football. ‘Having been re-elected unopposed in 2019 and 2023,’ I wrote in June, ‘Infantino ...

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 ...

Christopher Nolan’s $250 million action movie version of Homer’s ancient Greek poem is an entertaining way to hide from the high temperatures for a few hours. Nolan’s trademark jumps and twists in the ...

Before he reworked his teenage diary into a memoir, he convinced his father, Thomas, to dictate his own autobiography; this ...

North Korea is an anomaly. Its GDP per capita is at least thirty times smaller than South Korea’s, but it is also an industrialised, predominantly urban society with near total literacy and many more ...