The hope that every fascist is a future liberal or leftist just waiting to escape their present life is a form of ...

Humanitarian aid has long served as cover for Israeli crimes. Under the Geneva Conventions, an occupying force ...

Narges Bajoghli is an assistant professor of Middle East Studies at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University. Iran’s supreme leader recently claimed victory, simply by ...

Robert Malley is a senior fellow at the Yale Jackson School. He was a lead negotiator for the United States on the Iran nuclear deal in 2015 and President Biden’s special envoy to Iran.

The crux of Daniel Kehlmann’s Director is whether it’s weakness or necessity that makes G.W. Pabst compromise.

There are ten thousand freedoms,’ the late Joshua Clover once said, ‘but rock freedom is definitely set – ...

An Anglo-American audience is a mixed blessing for an Irish artist. Pro: you get their money. Con: their opinions, ...

There’s a pleasing Cheshire usage that Garner uses throughout his books, plunder to mean ‘ponder’, and as far as he’s ...

I met the great Iranian novelist Mahmoud Dowlatabadi in 2006. We had the same publisher, and through them he sent me ...

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