I thought,’ White wrote in his autobiographical masterpiece The Farewell Symphony (1997), ‘that never had a ...

In a Facebook post from 2012, Alaa Abd el-Fattah, who had just spent time in Tora prison, south of Cairo, begs us not to accept as normal the fact of someone, anyone, being in prison. Insist, he urges ...

Malak Mattar’s monumental 2024 black-and-white painting inspired by Guernica is entitled No Words (… for Gaza).

In Social Topography of a Rural Community Steve Hindle describes the lives of 780 inhabitants of 176 households in ...

The United States was born in war and has waged a war of some sort in every year of its existence. Silicon Valley ...

Georgi Gospodinov​ was 22 when Bulgarian communism collapsed in early 1990. ‘The end of our training,’ he has written, ...

I wanted to understand the figure of Riefenstahl in her development,’ Andres Veiel says, ‘without exculpating ...

Universities’ reliance on international students is only the most recent attempt to solve a broader problem, one ...

Detective novels offer a means of rehearsing the fearful reality of death, and in this sense the conventions of ...

One way of thinking about fascism is to see it as historically specific: a reactionary mass movement produced by the economic and social chaos that engulfed Europe after the First World War. Fascism ...

The Royal Museum of the Belgian Congo became the Royal Museum of Central Africa after Brussels choked back its fury ...