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 ...
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 ...
Ten years ago Berta Cáceres, a campaigner against dams and mining projects that were displacing rural communities ...
Jeremy Gilbert is a professor of cultural and political theory at the University of East London, and the current editor of the journal New Formations.
Huey​ Long – Louisiana’s legendary governor, senator and would-be presidential candidate – loved the campaign trail. ‘Watch me vaudeville ’em,’ he would say ...
In 2014, Steve Ballmer bought the Los Angeles Clippers for a then-record $2 billion, rescuing the basketball team ...
The LRB is Europe’s leading magazine of books and ideas. Published twice a month, it provides a space for some of ...
Don’t use any of that damn smooth stuff.’ Born in 1893, Long was one of nine children; his father ran a livestock farm. As a ...