Elias Khoury (1948-2024).

In the still hollow steel structure, ‘il condominio’, as the central body is called, had been assembled. With overlapping ...

Iran and escalation.

To him, no further regionalization of the country is required; shock therapy is best pursued in national lockstep, with ...

The political and cultural establishments who tolerate the killing fields in Palestine will now regard the assassination of ...

One issue we debated is the difference between site and context. ‘Might you be so inside your language,’ I asked Serra, ‘so ...

The title of Sally Rooney’s fourth novel, Intermezzo, refers to a move in chess, more commonly known as a Zwischenzug, in which a player delays a favourable move, such as the capture of a piece, in ...

Two news items last week marked the end of election year contention within the Democratic Party over Israel. The first was a statement by the Uncommitted movement – so named because it had organized ...

It was a Swiss doctor, Johannes Hofer, who in 1688 coined the term ‘nostalgia’, from the Greek nostos—return home, and algia—longing. Not so much an ancient passion as a pseudo-classical creation of ...