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, ...

Frantz Fanon is a thing of the past. It doesn’t take long, reading the story of his life – the Creole childhood in Martinique, volunteering to fight for the Free French in the Second World War, his ...

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 ...

John Lanchester, Tom Crewe and Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite join James Butler to dissect Keir Starmer's victory and the historic collapse of the Conservative Party. They discuss what the result ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. In the 160s CE, Rome was struck by a devastating disease which, a new book argues, may have been the world’s first ...

The broad theme of this series, truth and lies, was a favourite subject of Lucian of Samosata, the last of our Greek-language authors. His razor-sharp satire was a model for Erasmus, Voltaire and ...

When is giving up not failure, but a way of succeeding at something else? In a new book, which began as a piece for the LRB, the psychoanalyst and critic Adam Phillips explores the ways in which ...

The worst thing you can say to anyone who works in hospitality, Mendez writes, is ‘Maybe you’ll meet someone!’ But a chance encounter while waiting tables lead to their new niche. In this episode, ...