By 1993, BP had already spent millions of pounds in Azerbaijan. But it was still a long way from being ready to ...
There comes a moment when people realise that all these manifestations of ‘liberal values’ are cover for what is happening on the ground. The number of signatories to the boycott open letter has now ...
Analogies with 20th-century fascism are not particularly helpful for understanding our times, but one parallel ...
The enduring impact of war, poverty and neoliberal transformation are visible everywhere. Late Ottoman areas of ...
When Verdi’s Nabucco was first performed in 1842, Milanese audiences were quick to see their own situation under Austrian ...
The first person to grasp the marketing potential of the unicorn seems to have been King James I of Scotland.
On budget day, Tom Johnson joins Malin Hay to discuss the revolution in numeracy and use of numbers in Early Modern England, from the black and white squares of the ‘reckoning cloth’ to logarithmic ...
It’s always a shock when imagined characters from novels are given a kind of reality by TV actors. Everybody has their own idea of Mr Darcy or Leopold Bloom, Mrs Dalloway or Emma Bovary, and most ...
In the latest issue of the LRB, Jeremy Harding reviews How to Write about Africa, a posthumous collection of essays and stories by Binyavanga Wainaina, one of postcolonial Africa’s great anglophone ...
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