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Timothée Birindwa, an emergency health co-ordinator for the International Rescue Committee, arrived in Bunia, ...

Bad magic attracts bad money. Brion Gysin had a preternatural instinct for the fluctuations of the art market, ...

Occasionally when the phone rang at the London Review offices in the late 1990s it would be the operator asking if ...

If Joyce’s politics were hard to decipher, it was partly because he concealed his Parnellism behind something of ...

This concept of subjecthood soon applied in England’s infant colonies, including in America, where, after the Revolution, it ...

Before the final yesterday I was puzzled as to why Jennifer Hudson was singing the US national anthem: did they think ...

His was the name on the front cover of Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, several issues of which I had recently picked up ...

My friend Jawad Ali, a Palestinian American lawyer, was at his daughter’s graduation last month when he got a ...

Would the Founding Fathers recognise the modern United States as the republic they declared in 1776? The nation formed from Britain’s North American colonies has become the most powerful and ...

Rosemary is joined again by Matthew Davies to continue the story of England’s capital through its rapid rise in the first half of the 14th century and a long period turmoil thereafter, including the ...

I n her Clarendon Lectures ​ , given at Oxford in 2023 and recently published as Poetry’s Nature (Oxford, £25.99), Susan ...