But wait, actually, no. The mother’s contribution is independent of the child’s sex. The child’s sex is determined by the father’s gamete (X or Y). Wait, no, actually, the father’s gamete determines ...

Only eight years earlier, Henry IV had deposed his cousin Richard II, who died in custody soon afterwards. Richard’s rule was ...

Undeterred by Napoleon’s brief return to power in 1815, Alexander sought to confirm his status as Europe’s saviour with the ...

I thought of it again when the Home Office published a report celebrating its ‘UK-wide blitz on illegal working to strengthen ...

Gcina Lepheana had been working deep in the illegal mine for five months when, in October last year, deliveries ...

Both in art and in our general ideas about the passage of human life there is assumed to be a general abiding timeliness. We assume that the essential health of a human life has a great deal to ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. Laleh Khalili talks to Tom about the mythology of covert military operatives, through romance novels, self-help books ...

Adam Shatz, the LRB’s US editor, talks to Sindre Bangstad and Reza Zia-Ebrahimi about the Great Replacement conspiracy theory, from its origins in the high tide of French colonial expansionism in the ...

Colm Tóibín talks to Tom about the life and work of the novelist John McGahern through his recently published correspondence, which includes letters to Tóibín. They discuss his family, his banned work ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. Katherine Rundell has been writing about endangered animals in the LRB since 2018. Her new book, The Golden Mole ...

Jeremy Smith teaches at Zayed University in Abu Dhabi, and is Professor of Border and Russian Studies at the University of Eastern Finland.

Enzo Traverso talks to Adam Shatz about his new book on the history of revolutionary passions, images and ideas, from Haiti’s emancipatory slave rebellion in 1791 to Stalin’s top-down authoritarianism ...