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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

Your browser does not support the audio element. Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite talks to Tom about how events in the 1960s, including the Aberfan disaster and a shift ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. In episode one of Among the Ancients, Emily and Tom begin with a beginning, Homer’s Iliad: its depictions of anger ...

Emma John and Natasha Chahal join Tom to discuss England’s victory in Euro 2022, the long history of women’s football – mentioned in a poem by Philip Sidney in the 16th century, banned by the FA for ...

The recovery of history’s ‘lost’ women is often associated with the advent of feminism, but, Sophie Smith writes, women’s contributions to Western philosophy have been regularly rediscovered since at ...

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 ...