An Anglo-American audience is a mixed blessing for an Irish artist. Pro: you get their money. Con: their opinions, ...

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

There’s a pleasing Cheshire usage that Garner uses throughout his books, plunder to mean ‘ponder’, and as far as he’s ...

War amputees are a common sight in Odesa; I’ve had several rides from Bolt drivers with prosthetic limbs. The local athletes ...

Humanitarian aid has long served as cover for Israeli crimes. Under the Geneva Conventions, an occupying force ...

I met the great Iranian novelist Mahmoud Dowlatabadi in 2006. We had the same publisher, and through them he sent me ...

Kathleen Jamie is the author of several poetry collections, including The Queen of Sheba, The Tree House and The Overhaul, and three essay collections, Findings, Sightlines and Surfacing. She became ...

Jonathan Healey is a historian at Oxford. The Blood in Winter: A Nation Descends, 1642 is out now.