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Who killed Jane Stanford?
Jane Stanford, the co-founder of Stanford University, was murdered with strychnine in 1905. Her killer was never discovered – until now (perhaps). Ja…
3 years, 4 months ago
Introducing The Long and Short
Seamus Perry and Mark Ford return with a new twelve-part Close Readings series, The Long and Short, taking a fresh look at 19th and 20th-century lite…
3 years, 4 months ago
Consider the Pangolin, and Other Animals
Katherine Rundell has been writing about endangered animals in the LRB since 2018. Her new book, The Golden Mole, gathers those essays and new pieces…
3 years, 4 months ago
What is Coral?
Corals have held our fascination for thousands of years, but much of what we know about them has only been discovered recently. Liam Shaw talks to To…
3 years, 5 months ago
Fathers and Sons in Palestine
The writer and human rights lawyer Raja Shehadeh talks to Adam Shatz about his recent memoir, We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I, which refl…
3 years, 5 months ago
Protests in Iran
Azadeh Moaveni talks to Tom about the demonstrations in Iran following the killingof Mahsa Amini in September. They discuss the degree to which the p…
3 years, 5 months ago
Passports and Spies
Sheila Fitzpatrick talks to Tom about the perils of doing archive research in the Soviet Union, how she used Moscow telephone directories to investig…
3 years, 5 months ago
Will the world end in 2178?
Following Nasa’s Dart mission, which successfully fired a spacecraft into the asteroid Dimorphos last month, Chris Lintott talks to Tom about what as…
3 years, 5 months ago
Lula v. Bolsonaro
Forrest Hylton talks to Tom about the presidential elections in Brazil, where former president Lula faces the incumbent, Jair Bolsonaro, in the final…
3 years, 6 months ago
On Ian McEwan
Daniel Soar talks to Tom about Ian McEwan’s latest novel, Lessons – how it fits with his earlier fiction, the relationship between world events and p…
3 years, 6 months ago