Before the war, Muhammad had been the most energetic of us. He wasn’t tall, but he never saw that as an obstacle.
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Two marches will assemble in central London tomorrow. One is championing the rights of Palestinians and commemorating 78 years of displacement and occupation; the other, organised by the far-right ...
Despite a few halting steps towards devolving power in Britain, England itself remains a profoundly centralised ...
The people of Unnimore thought that ‘flitting’ would not come upon them while they lived. As long as they paid the rent, and ...
By now, a production of John Adams’s opera The Death of Klinghoffer presumes its own opposition. At the Teatro ...
Circumstantial evidence (defective internal logic, uncontrolled tone, bizarreness for its own sake) suggests that ...
Cruise ships are sometimes called floating cities. Icon of the Seas, with a maximum capacity of ten thousand people (passengers and crew), could accommodate most of the population of the city of Wells ...
The LRB is Europe’s leading magazine of books and ideas. Published twice a month, it provides a space for some of ...
That slavery persisted in Muslim societies well into the 20th century is undeniable. More questions need to be ...