The first vaccines a two-month-old child gets in England offer protection against three species of virus and ...

As fast as the flames flew up, the news of the fire spread not just through the city but among Glaswegians in ...

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

Michael Hofmann is a poet and translator from German of books by Thomas Bernhard, Jenny Erpenbeck, Günter Grass, Franz Kafka, Joseph Roth and Patrick Süskind, among many others. He teaches at the ...

Remember perestroika? That was Mikhail Gorbachev’s ill-fated experiment in reform in the late 1980s which ended with the sudden collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. The perestroika story, as we read ...

Huey Long – Louisiana’s legendary governor, senator and would-be presidential candidate – loved the campaign trail. ‘Watch me vaudeville ’em,’ he would say, as he climbed up to the speaker’s platform.

Just north of Oxford Street, at its eastern end, a dim entry called Newman Passage curves away from the plate glass and glitz into a silent Victorian alley. Wet cobbles gleam; the narrowing walls have ...

On 5 June 1975, four carabinieri officers, in one car, drove up a winding road to an isolated farmhouse above ...

Neville Morley is a professor of classics and ancient history at Exeter.

Thucydides is often read these days as a pioneering political theorist, who identified the normative principles ...