Under the policy of Staatsräson, which has made the defence of Israel a central pillar of the German state, the ...

The rarity of phosphorus makes it the single most limiting factor for the growth of biomass on Earth. It is, as Isaac Asimov puts it, ‘life’s bottleneck’ – the toll which must be paid by all matter ...

In the West Papuan regency of Merauke, close to the border with Papua New Guinea, Indonesia is rapidly clearing land ...

Adam Phillips is a psychoanalyst who worked for some years as an NHS child psychotherapist. His books include Winnicott, On Kissing, Tickling and Being Bored, Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived ...

I saw ​ the end of it then, I mean the end of it as it was, as my mother told the story of my father’s sudden deafness. The ...

Jorie Graham, the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard, won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems 1974-94. Her other collections include The ...

is a wheel where they turn to tell him sorrow is gain. The way he sets his spine to the ironwork is a drag-line of grief: ...

Seas are repetitive creatures, working in cycles of tides, migration and climate change, which is normally to say ...

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

The main component of cigarette filters is a plastic, cellulose acetate, and trillions of butts are discarded into ...