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 ...
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 ...
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.
When Wittgenstein published his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus in 1921 he claimed to have solved all philosophical problems. Adrian Moore joins Malin Hay to discuss what Wittgenstein hoped to achieve ...
The foul-mouthed, mean-spirited peasant Marcolf was one of the most well-known literary characters in late medieval Europe. He appears in many poetic works from the 9th century onwards, but it’s in ...
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 assassinations of Yahya Sinwar and Hassan ...
Your browser does not support the audio element. In the second of three conversations about the crisis in the Middle East, recorded shortly before the death of Hamas ...