On 1 April, the memorial site at the former Buchenwald concentration camp announced that the Israeli philosopher Omri Boehm would no longer be speaking at the eightieth anniversary commemoration of ...

El Salvador’s Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT) opened in 2023. It has capacity for up to forty thousand prisoners, although is said to be only half full. CECOT was built to incarcerate ...

Mario Vargas Llosa has died at the age of 89. In a recent issue of the London Review, Tony Wood wrote about the ...

A faint irony in the presentation of this thought tells us that Paudi may be a bit too correct and modern, and Buzzati later ...

His spaniel was up on its hind legs, paws on his master’s belly, where my paws happily had lately been. He was my host, and I ate his food, while others there were still at it, too, and the plate set ...

Many fairy tales begin something like this: a woman is alone in a garden, or under a tree, or bathing in a pond. She longs for a child and prays. She might carve an apple, spill a few drops of blood ...

When Adolescence was released on Netflix last month, it was pegged as an incisive inquiry into the manosphere and ...

Not many Edinburgh residents collect beach-cast seaweed, but when a winter storm leaves a strandline deposit on Portobello beach, it feels to me like a gift or a visitation from another world. Seaweed ...

Barbara Everett, who died on Friday, 4 April at the age of 92, was for many years a fellow of Somerville College, Oxford. Her books include Poets in Their Time and Young Hamlet: Essays on ...

Men were frequently rounded up during the German occupation of Rome, to be requisitioned as labour for the construction of ...

Free movement is a foundational right of EU citizens. When expelling a citizen of another member state on the grounds of public security (the other possible grounds are public health and public policy ...