If I weren’t a person, I’d be a mushroom,’ the narrator thinks in Olga Tokarczuk’s House of Day, House of Night.* In Drive ...

The moment they step on court most of them become nervous wrecks. They lie about line calls and bicker over the score; if ...

Didion’s essay ‘On Keeping a Notebook’, from 1966, is where readers first met Quintana, in the year she was born. ‘Although I have felt compelled to write things down since I was five years old,’ ...

British generals and politicians keep warning that the UK needs to be ready for imminent war or – in the government’s ...

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I n early 18th-century Christian Europe, only Peter the Great ruled a larger territory than Augustus the Strong. As Elector Frederick Augustus I of Saxony in 1694 and King Augustus II of the ...

During a parliamentary debate on the Terrorism Bill in 2000, MPs asked whether the legislation could be used to proscribe Greenpeace as a terrorist organisation. The group had, in recent years, ...

Unflinching (and unthinking?) support for Israel is a trojan horse through which censorship and authoritarianism sneak into ...

The US has declared an uncertain and messy end to its attack on Iran. Trump announced a ceasefire some hours before ...