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

You might think, given the subject, that the male hosts I think of as the podcast bros would have invited on a woman ...

Once at a gate with cherries. Know this quickly buried now or less to file history brief stuffed full of pen force, the time ...

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

I never see a news sheet or hear the news in the morning: that is a point of principle with me, a punctilio.’ Eliot always ...

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 ...

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

Ten years ago Berta Cáceres, a campaigner against dams and mining projects that were displacing rural communities ...

Thucydides is often read these days as a pioneering political theorist, who identified the normative principles that drive interstate relations and political life. Most of the general statements are ...

In 2014, Steve Ballmer bought the Los Angeles Clippers for a then-record $2 billion, rescuing the basketball team from the clutches of Donald Sterling, who had been forced to sell after a recording ...

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 ...