I thought,’ White wrote in his autobiographical masterpiece The Farewell Symphony (1997), ‘that never had a ...

Malak Mattar’s monumental 2024 black-and-white painting inspired by Guernica is entitled No Words (… for Gaza).

One way of thinking about fascism is to see it as historically specific: a reactionary mass movement produced by the economic and social chaos that engulfed Europe after the First World War. Fascism ...

When I walked through the shattered streets of Tulkarem refugee camp the day after a military incursion last November, the air was heavy with dust from demolished homes and bulldozed streets. I am the ...

Luis Buñuel worked at the Museum of Modern Art in New York between 1939 and 1941. His job was to select documentary films to be sent to Latin America, but he also, more notoriously, edited Leni ...

The Royal Museum of the Belgian Congo became the Royal Museum of Central Africa after Brussels choked back its fury ...

The United States was born in war and has waged a war of some sort in every year of its existence. Silicon Valley ...

Detective novels offer a means of rehearsing the fearful reality of death, and in this sense the conventions of ...

All autobiography is inherently mendacious, if only by omission and with the intent of protecting the innocent. In ...

There are no rules about what constitutes a crisis. Calls can be about an assault that took place days earlier or ...