An Anglo-American audience is a mixed blessing for an Irish artist. Pro: you get their money. Con: their opinions, ...

Humanitarian aid has long served as cover for Israeli crimes. Under the Geneva Conventions, an occupying force ...

There’s a pleasing Cheshire usage that Garner uses throughout his books, plunder to mean ‘ponder’, and as far as he’s ...

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War amputees are a common sight in Odesa; I’ve had several rides from Bolt drivers with prosthetic limbs. The local athletes ...

The LRB is Europe’s leading magazine of books and ideas. Published twice a month, it provides a space for some of ...

In 2004, the House of Lords allowed the appeal of nine foreign nationals against their indefinite detention under the ...

Is Rachel Cusk’s new book a novel, a series of essays or a philosophical inquiry? Parade sends the coin spinning on its edge every time you flip it. It’s the most musical work she has written, a ...

Ouvidor 63 is an illegal but tolerated artist-led occupation of an office block in downtown São Paulo. There are perhaps two ...

Diverted Traffic has made it past 100, and survived the first wave – thanks for sticking with us! In August and beyond, we’ll continue to send our anti-news newsletter, but there will be some changes ...

Israel’s codename for its attack on Iran, launched last Friday, was Operation Rising Lion, a pointed reference ...

I met the great Iranian novelist Mahmoud Dowlatabadi in 2006. We had the same publisher, and through them he sent me ...