I will leave it to those who knew him to speak about Jason Arday’s contributions to academia and university life, ...

The entire contents of the Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow were auctioned off by a commercial asset sales company on 30 July. In the days leading up to the sale, it was promoted in theHerald ...

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 ...

The teenager was born, it’s sometimes said, in America in the mid-1950s, when Little Richard released ‘Tutti Frutti’ and Elvis appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show. Thirty years later, the Thatcher ...

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 ...

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 ...

It could be argued that Christopher Nolan has been remaking the Odyssey for his whole career, and his latest film revisits many of the themes of his earlier movies, as once again a male protagonist ...

Timothée Birindwa, an emergency health co-ordinator for the International Rescue Committee, arrived in Bunia, Ituru province, with his colleagues on 10 June. The Democratic Republic of Congo is ...

James ‘Fergie’ Chambers, a US citizen, was detained by Spanish police on Ibiza earlier this month. He was visiting the Balearic island with his family with a possible view to moving there from their ...