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

Ara Darzi released his report on the English National Health Service last month. To no one’s surprise, he finds ...

On 10 March 1993, Dr David Gunn was shot dead by Michael F. Griffin, an anti-choice zealot, outside the Pensacola Women’s Medical Services clinic. A year later Dr John Britton was shot dead along with ...

A judge in Georgia recently struck down the six-week abortion ban. But total or near-total bans are still in place ...

The Broadway cinema in Prestwick closed in 1966. It was converted into a bingo hall, then a squash court and ...

Blair never owned a mobile phone while prime minister and barely knew how to send an email. At the same time, he ...

Abu Rayhan al-Biruni and Ibn Sina illustrate the region’s cosmopolitanism and ingenuity. While being grounded in ...

On Friday, 27 September, we felt the whole of Beirut shake. A huge plume of smoke was visible across the city.

The final report of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry established that the fire on 14 June 2017, which killed 72 people, was the ‘culmination of decades of failure’. Every death was avoidable, and every ...

When Israel bombarded Beirut on 27 September, killing hundreds of people, the BBC headline was ‘Beirut rocked ...

The collection of modernist art from Ukraine currently on show at the Royal Academy is both an exhibition and a conservation project. In the Eye of the Storm (until 13 October) comprises 65 pieces, ...