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

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

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 ...

Twenty years of writing, reading, thinking and travelling went into Memoirs of Hadrian. Several drafts were burned.

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

Last September, during an Israeli military incursion into the camp, one of our community health workers was shot while saving one of his colleagues and protecting residents. He has spent several ...

How can we account for France’s historical wavering on race, between an extraordinary openness to assimilation ...

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

All autobiography is inherently mendacious, if only by omission and with the intent of protecting the innocent. In ...

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 ...