Writers, Visible and Invisible
Writers are hidden beings, says the winner of the 2008 PEN/Nabokov Lifetime Achievement Award
Rome: Arrivederci Roma
The public and government mood towards immigrants, whether legal or illegal, is increasingly ugly
Decline and Fall Guys
As Georgia licks its wounds, a morally dubious industry has sprung up to churn out books celebrating the end of American global hegemony
A Suez Affair
The public and the private are always swirling around, in a fluid, ever-changing relationship
ONLINE ONLY: Education It’s Not
‘Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared,’ declared the Reverend Charles Colton almost two centuries ago, ‘for the greatest fool may ask more
ONLINE ONLY: A Different Deal In Iraq
Iraq begins to cut its own deals, and to reach for sovereignty
A New Mutiny?
Away from the tourist trail, India is threatened by the Maoism that toppled Nepal's monarchy
Betraying the State of Israel
Jews fail to understand anti-Semitism disguised as anti-Zionism