From 1819 to 1831, Colombia and Venezuela were part of the same country (Gran Colombia also included Ecuador, Panama and parts of Brazil and Peru). In ‘Me voy Pa’Cali’, Oscar D’León sang: ‘Listen, my ...

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

Some parishioners morphed into willing Protestants; defiant Catholics – recusants – refused to attend services; other ...

He was born in 1874 and spent his first eleven years in San Francisco, where the Frost family managed on very little, ...

Vallejo was born in 1892, the youngest of eleven children, in an Andean town in the north of Peru. Using the word for a child ...

After seventeen minutes the sky cleared. Seventeen minutes of rain was enough to flood the tents of thousands of families.

Schopenhauer has long held the title of gloomiest philosopher in history. He sees human existence not as grand ...

The Strand, which today has its western limit at Trafalgar Square, was first recorded in the Roman period, as the ...

Joanne O’Leary, an editor at the LRB, has been following Formula One since she was a child. Thomas Jones wrote recently in the LRB about the life and times of Enzo Ferrari. In this episode, they ...

On 7 November 1965, Henry Solomons, the Labour MP for the constituency, died after a short illness. He had won the marginal seat from the Tories at the 1964 general election with a majority of 1181 ...

Parry, who died last month, had a business card in the early 1990s that described him as ‘Jonty ...

The killing of Palestinians has continued, sometimes surpassing pre-ceasefire levels and accelerating viciously in ...