Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Confessions (published in two parts, in 1782 and 1789) is an account of the first 53 years of the author’s life, up to 1765, describing his experiences from his humble ...

The conflict in West Papua may be the world’s most unequal war: raids on military bases have improved the West ...

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

The annual World Conker Championships take place every October in the grounds of the Shuckburgh Arms, a pub in ...

Amia Srinivasan is the Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at All Souls College, Oxford and a contributing ...

The few optimists in Labour claim that polling numbers aren’t meaningful this far from an election: faced with ...

The life of the tenth Ottoman sultan, Suleyman, known in Europe as the Magnificent and in Turkey as the Lawgiver, ...

The 400th anniversary of James VI and I’s death has been marked by several new approaches to the reign that gave ...

Pepys himself was remembered, if at all, as a naval administrator who’d had a compulsion for buying up printed paper. The ...

According to Arthur Schlesinger, Kennedy considered making Walter Lippmann his ambassador to Paris, but Schlesinger told the president he was more useful in the papers. When Lippmann visited the Oval ...

The universe has no centre. What Pynchon has mapped is a world that is continuous and connected, where borders, ...