During his martyrdom in 258 AD, St Lawrence, as he was being grilled alive by the Roman authorities, is said to have asked ...

Gcina Lepheana had been working deep in the illegal mine for five months when, in October last year, deliveries ...

As the two coffins were driven through the crowd, a deep, sorrowful voice came from the loudspeakers. The sound of ...

In the summer of 1860, an unprecedented wave of sectarian violence swept across Greater Syria. Druze militias sacked Maronite Christian villages, killing eleven thousand people. Muslim mobs killed ...

In general, New Left Review is immune to the appeal of actually existing electoral democracy and sceptical about ...

The tricks of artificial cold were once regarded with suspicion and awe. Twilley describes the world’s first cold-storage ...

The exhibition is the first properly to consider Goldin as a filmmaker. When The Ballad of Sexual Dependency (1979-86) came ...

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

I received an email from my boss at the health department where I work on social epidemiology. It was ...

This episode looks at four poems whose subject would seem to lie beyond words: the death of a child. A defining feature of elegy is the struggle between poetic eloquence and inarticulate grief, and in ...