At the end of each of Rooney’s novels, love triumphs partly because it might be the only form of solidarity, the only glimpse ...

Nearly four years on from the Capitol riot, the issue of culpability remains unresolved. To Democrats, the answer ...

For the last nine months, representatives from the United States, Israel, Egypt, Qatar and Hamas have ostensibly been ...

It’s hard to see how Nasrallah’s prudence will survive the pager and short-wave radio attacks of this week, ...

Following a prolonged drought, smoke from wildfires in the Amazon basin is choking people over an enormous swath ...

One of the most fascinating aspects of Wei Shujun’s film Only the River Flows is the continuing contrast between ...

The Lebanese novelist Elias Khoury died yesterday at the age of 76. When his early book The Little Mountain (1977) ...

The question of what computers can’t do was posed in 1972 by the philosopher Hubert Dreyfus. Dreyfus’s answer – think creatively – was soon considered an error, but the problem remained. In the New ...

Bibi Rabbiyah Khan told me that she worried about her children and grandchildren. Her family had moved to London in the 1960s, when she was eight years old, and she recalled her father joining efforts ...

The sun still sparkles on the sapphire sea at Mamallapuram. The shoppers and sightseers still dawdle along the harbour front, gawping at the astonishing sculptures carved on the rocks behind: the gods ...

Every modern revolution of significance, from 1789 to the present, has produced a diaspora. The exodus from Russia after the end of its ancien régime scattered minds of exceptional brilliance in the ...

In 1921, Jane Ellen Harrison, the maverick Cambridge classicist and celebrity public intellectual, was introduced to the crown prince of Japan when he came to receive an honorary degree from the ...