The first person to grasp the marketing potential of the unicorn seems to have been King James I of Scotland.

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

It’s always a shock when imagined characters from novels are given a kind of reality by TV actors. Everybody has ...

Mary and Irina resume their discussion of Boccaccio’s Decameron, focusing on three stories of female agency, deception and desire. Alibech, an aspiring hermitess, is tricked into indulging her ...

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Many Jews today feel torn. On the one hand, they feel loyalty to Israel, the land of their fellow Jews, many of ...

In his third conversation looking at the crisis in the Middle East, Adam talks to Mohamad Bazzi about Israel’s expansion of its war into Lebanon and the recent assassinations of Yahya Sinwar and ...

Yezid Sayigh is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut.

William James is famous for two things: his work as a psychologist and philosopher, and his family. But before anything else he was a qualified doctor, who frequently pronounced on questions of bodily ...

Music critic Ian Penman is back with a pioneering book of essays alluding to a lost moment in musical history ‘when cultures collided and a cross-generational and “cross-colour” awareness was born’.

Hassan Nasrallah’s death was announced on Saturday, 28 September, the anniversary of the death of the Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser, the father of Pan-Arabism. Nasser died of a heart attack in ...