Last summer, the singer Akon announced that Akon City – the ‘real-life Wakanda’ that he planned to build on ...

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

Unfortunately for Mexicans, Mexico has moved to the top of the US foreign policy agenda. After Trump kidnapped ...

‘Westerners’ have told themselves a story of their past dominated by a fluke in human history: the rise of a single religion, Christianity, to gain a monopoly over the vast majority of medieval Europe ...

As Adèle Yon tells it in Mon vrai nom est Elisabeth, when she was eighteen she went to a party, taking with her a bag of weed. A distant cousin who was also at the party made a beeline for her, or for ...

The movie producer , cinematographer and screenwriter Harrison Starr died in 2024 at the age of 95. Almost no one noticed. If his name was ever mentioned it was usually in connection with those of ...

The British royal family traces its descent from the Norman Conquest; the numbering of monarchs dates from 1066. That Charles III’s great-uncle was the eighth King Edward, for instance, ignores Edward ...

More than 90 per cent of transactions in the UK are now cashless, yet there is more cash in circulation than ever before. In the UK, there’s about £1300 circulating for every individual; in the US ...

Before the war, Muhammad had been the most energetic of us. He wasn’t tall, but he never saw that as an obstacle.