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Endgame in Ukraine
James Meek talks to Tom about his latest report from Ukraine, where he spent time in Kharkiv and Kupiansk in the east of the country. In Kharkiv, he …
1 year, 4 months ago
The Trump Takeover
Adam Shatz is joined by Jamelle Bouie and Deborah Friedell to pick through the results and implications of Trump’s victory. The US has a booming econ…
1 year, 5 months ago
The Mendel Inheritance
When Gregor Mendel published the results of his experiments on pea plants in 1866 he initiated a fierce debate about the nature of heredity and genet…
1 year, 5 months ago
Early Modern Maths
On budget day, Tom Johnson joins Malin Hay to discuss the revolution in numeracy and use of numbers in Early Modern England, from the black and white…
1 year, 5 months ago
On Binyavanga Wainaina
In the latest issue of the LRB, Jeremy Harding reviews How to Write about Africa, a posthumous collection of essays and stories by Binyavanga Wainain…
1 year, 5 months ago
A New War in Lebanon
In his third conversation looking at the crisis in the Middle East, Adam talks to Mohamad Bazzi about Israel’s expansion of its war into Lebanon and …
1 year, 5 months ago
The End of Hamas?
In the second of three conversations about the crisis in the Middle East, recorded shortly before the death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was reported…
1 year, 5 months ago
Inside Israel
In the first of three episodes on the crisis in the Middle East, Adam Shatz is joined by Mairav Zonszein and Amjad Iraqi to discuss the experiences o…
1 year, 5 months ago
The Death and Life of the Department Store
‘The department store is dying,’ Rosemary Hill wrote recently in the LRB, reviewing an exhibition at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris on the or…
1 year, 6 months ago
After Grenfell
The final report of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry established that the fire on 14 June 2017, which killed 72 people, was the ‘culmination of decades of …
1 year, 6 months ago