There’s a pleasing Cheshire usage that Garner uses throughout his books, plunder to mean ‘ponder’, and as far as he’s ...

Humanitarian aid has long served as cover for Israeli crimes. Under the Geneva Conventions, an occupying force ...

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Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women’s Words by Jenni Nuttall. Virago, 292 pp., £10.99, May, 978 0 349 01531 6 ...

Ouvidor 63 is an illegal but tolerated artist-led occupation of an office block in downtown São Paulo. There are perhaps two ...

James Wolcott’s entertaining article on Rudy Giuliani is, remarkably, too complimentary (LRB, 16 February). Wolcott accepts Andrew Kirtzman’s dubious assertion that Giuliani brought down crime in New ...