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 ...

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 ...

A protégé of Habermas, he grew up in the 1960s and is old enough to remember the attempted bombing of the Jewish community ...

Since the disputed elections of October 2024, protesters have gathered daily in front of the Georgian parliament building on Rustaveli Avenue in central Tbilisi. These days they wear creative face ...

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

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

D onald Trump ​ likes to tell us that ‘tariff’ is ‘the most beautiful word in the dictionary’. He does not remind us that the ...

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

Negotiations to develop a global treaty to end plastic pollution have resumed in Geneva. They follow a resolution by the UN Environment Assembly in 2022 to forge a legally binding international ...

Donald Trump has alienated a good number of his MAGA supporters by seeking to suppress the full disclosure of the Jeffrey Epstein files. Are his supporters angry because they think he is guilty of ...