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

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

Lynn, DeLynn’s narrator/alter ego, looks back from adulthood at her final year of school. She knows there is something wrong ...

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

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 ...

Gulbadan Begum was the daughter of the founder of the Mughal Empire. She is the only Mughal woman known to have ...

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

In my own For You journey into Faragism, I was struck by the recurring assumption that the ultimate prize was exit ...

Belle da Costa Greene was one of the best-paid women in New York City. As J.P. Morgan’s personal librarian, she criss-crossed the Atlantic in pursuit of rare manuscripts to add to his collection, ...

Jonathan Healey is a historian at Oxford. The Blood in Winter: A Nation Descends, 1642 is out now.

The Canongate Wall is a feature of the Scottish Parliament building in Holyrood, Edinburgh. Designed by Soraya ...

Kathleen Jamie is the author of several poetry collections, including The Queen of Sheba, The Tree House and The Overhaul, and three essay collections, Findings, Sightlines and Surfacing.She became ...