Gazans honoured their donkeys, dressing them up and walking them down a red carpet to celebrate the ...

Tulathimutte’s characters have no choice but to elevate masturbation to an art because no one else is willing to touch them.

I believe there is a moral case for disarming the machinery of war that is killing innocent civilians in Gaza with ...

But the flood did severely disrupt the city’s transportation system: Fori Bridge and Lagos Bridge, which connected the east ...

Patricia Lockwood is a contributing editor at the LRB. Her books include two poetry collections, Balloon Pop Outlaw Black and Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals; a memoir, Priestdaddy; and a novel, ...

Chuck Berry’s ‘Maybellene’ recently turned seventy. Recorded on 21 May 1955 in a studio on the South Side ...

Marguerite Yourcenar entered the Académie Française in 1981, the first woman to be admitted. Her novel Memoirs of Hadrian, published thirty years earlier, is ‘often considered the best French novel of ...

Mahmood Mamdani is the Herbert Lehman pro­fessor of government at Columbia University and former director of the Makerere Institute of Social Research in Kampala.

Many of our most widely discussed pieces were delivered first as LRB Winter Lectures: Judith Butler on who owns Kafka; Hilary Mantel on royal bodies; Andrew O’Hagan on Julian Assange; Marina Warner on ...

But it’s the same ‘morbid symptom’, the way diaries are morbid symptoms. ‘When the symptoms could no longer be contained by her diary, she waded into a river with her pockets full of stones.’ A lot of ...

Fraser MacDonald’s piece about compost reminded me of my time at an agricultural college many years ago (LRB, 17 April). Behind the byre of a nearby farm was a rank, steaming compost heap almost as ...

Amia Srinivasan is the Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at All Souls College, Oxford and a contributing editor at the . Her first book, , was published in 2021. The title essay was ...