I don’t suppose Donald Trump or Keir Starmer saw the row of flags, black, white and green with a red triangle, on ...

In the last week it has seemed as though everyone in Gaza has been convulsed by terrible hunger. Exhausted Palestinians – including friends and colleagues of mine – can feel their bodies breaking down ...

During the curtain call for the closing performance of Verdi’s Il trovatore at the Royal Opera House on 19 July, one of the cast, Danni Perry, took their bow holding a Palestinian flag. The moment, ...

Preliminary data published in 2021 strongly suggested that testing positive for Covid was linked to a traumatic ...

The first true lab rat was the Wistar rat, a strain specifically bred for biomedical research. In his “rat universe” experiments, John B. Calhoun placed large numbers of these rats in a controlled ...

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With the proscription of Palestine Action early in July, the question of what support for a terrorist group means has become urgent. Very few people in Britain supported al-Qaida; many more support ...

Jenny Turner is a contributing editor at the LRB, for which she first wrote in 1991 (on James Kelman and Janice Galloway). She has written more than sixty pieces for the paper since then, on subjects ...

Adam Shatz is the LRB ’s US editor. He is the author of Writers and Missionaries: Essays on the Radical Imagination, which includes many pieces from the paper, and The Rebel’s Clinic: The ...

Orsanmichele market had many features of the pre-electronic exchange model, with its standardised measures and pricing, set hours and regulatory oversight, and the beginning and end of trading each ...