At the end of each of Rooney’s novels, love triumphs partly because it might be the only form of solidarity, the only glimpse ...

Nearly four years on from the Capitol riot, the issue of culpability remains unresolved. To Democrats, the answer ...

For the last nine months, representatives from the United States, Israel, Egypt, Qatar and Hamas have ostensibly been ...

It’s hard to see how Nasrallah’s prudence will survive the pager and short-wave radio attacks of this week, ...

Following a prolonged drought, smoke from wildfires in the Amazon basin is choking people over an enormous swath ...

One of the most fascinating aspects of Wei Shujun’s film Only the River Flows is the continuing contrast between ...

The sun still sparkles on the sapphire sea at Mamallapuram. The shoppers and sightseers still dawdle along the harbour front, gawping at the astonishing sculptures carved on the rocks behind: the gods ...

The question of what computers can’t do was posed in 1972 by the philosopher Hubert Dreyfus. Dreyfus’s answer ...

Rachel Kushner ’s fourth novel, Creation Lake, shuttles between the story of Sadie Smith, a spy-for-hire tasked with observing Le Moulin, a radical environmentalist commune in rural southwest France, ...

The Lebanese novelist Elias Khoury died yesterday at the age of 76. When his early book The Little Mountain (1977) ...

This episode is a chapter from Complicated Women by Bee Wilson, a new LRB audiobook, based on pieces first published in the London Review of Books. Wilson explores the lives of ten figures, from Lola ...