From 1819 to 1831, Colombia and Venezuela were part of the same country (Gran Colombia also included Ecuador, Panama and parts of Brazil and Peru). In ‘Me voy Pa’Cali’, Oscar D’León sang: ‘Listen, my ...
The LRB is Europe’s leading magazine of books and ideas. Published twice a month, it provides a space for some of ...
After seventeen minutes the sky cleared. Seventeen minutes of rain was enough to flood the tents of thousands of families.
On 7 November 1965, Henry Solomons, the Labour MP for the constituency, died after a short illness. He had won the marginal seat from the Tories at the 1964 general election with a majority of 1181 ...
The killing of Palestinians has continued, sometimes surpassing pre-ceasefire levels and accelerating viciously in ...
Despite the ban, more than 160,000 copies of La Question circulated in France, Algeria and beyond. In a preface, Jean-Paul Sartre wrote that Alleg had revealed the brutalising and inhumane structure ...
The LRB is Europe’s leading magazine of books and ideas. Published twice a month, it provides a space for some of ...
Streptomycetes are soil bacteria that could easily be mistaken for fungi, their cells snaking through the earth in long threads that resemble mycelial networks. To propagate when their survival is ...
As a backbench opposition MP, Shabana Mahmood called for a ‘general amnesty’ of undocumented workers so they could ‘regularise their status’. Now that she is home secretary, she has proposed the ‘most ...
The Strand, which today has its western limit at Trafalgar Square, was first recorded in the Roman period, as the ...
Despite his nostalgia for monarchical institutions, de Gaulle keenly admired Clemenceau, a staunch republican. In his War ...
Postures: Jean Rhys in the Modern World, recently on display at London’s Michael Werner Gallery, does not try to cover all ...
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