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).

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

When I walked through the shattered streets of Tulkarem refugee camp the day after a military incursion last November, the air was heavy with dust from demolished homes and bulldozed streets. I am the ...

Luis Buñuel worked at the Museum of Modern Art in New York between 1939 and 1941. His job was to select documentary films to be sent to Latin America, but he also, more notoriously, edited Leni ...

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

There are no rules about what constitutes a crisis. Calls can be about an assault that took place days earlier or ...

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

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