Many Jews today feel torn. On the one hand, they feel loyalty to Israel, the land of their fellow Jews, many of ...

Yezid Sayigh is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut.

Mairav Zonszein is a journalist and Senior Israel Analyst with Crisis Group. In the first of two episodes on the crisis in the Middle East, Adam Shatz is joined by Mairav Zonszein and Amjad Iraqi to ...

In May 2023, I resigned as a (part-time) immigration judge after twenty years in the job. It was less a matter of conscience, ...

It would seem obvious that Watson’s priority is to manifest a voice, but this sort of punctuation addresses the eye ...

W here you have ​ a girl and a looking-glass, or – in the case of one of Eley Williams’s short stories – a woman who sees her ...

Six weeks after the start of the Second World War, the British government lifted the colour bar on military ...

In the later decades of the last century, a new wave of ideas broke across the study of literature throughout the world. Known simply as ‘theory’, it ranged from structuralism to feminism, semiotics ...

‘This is the Nile and I’m a liar.’ These are the opening words of an amazing play by Anne Carson, first performed in 2019. The statement is in one sense correct. The speaker is nowhere near Egypt and ...

Leaves ticket down, no avalanche, A gangrene inches through the bark. Fruit trees are short-lived. So we’d heard.

In an essay on scholarly ‘necrophilia’, published in 2021, the historian of science Lorraine Daston noted that writing histories of their own disciplines is often an excuse for scholars to commune ...

Immanuel Kant was against revolutions. In 1793 he described them as the work of ‘political criminals’ and ‘injustice in the highest degree’. He accepted, on the other hand, that they sometimes turned ...