Right-wing anger about The Odyssey says more about today’s myopic understanding of identity than it does about classical antiquity.
The Israeli far-right minister released a video taunting detained Gaza aid flotilla activists, prompting widespread criticism at home and internationally.
Rather than a relic of the past, Mary Beard sees the classical world as a powerful tool for understanding the present. It's an idea she has explored in over twenty books on ancien…
The DOJ charged the former leader of Cuba with murder and other crimes for his alleged role in the downing of two civilian aircraft in 1996.
Nation of Strangers is the conclusion of a decade-long odyssey. My ten-year saga began in 2016 when I wrote a book called Turkey: The Insane and the Melancholy. Before the book, I…
Ten U.S. mayors from cities such as Chicago and Cincinnati have joined a pact with European mayors to defend democracy and progressive values and fight right-wing populists and au…
In The Wizard of the Kremlin, Jude Law flexes his character-actor muscles as the Russian president.
Everyone’s talking about Salome right now, and Leslie Baird has some answers about why. | Lit Hub Politics How the critical approaches outlined in George Saunders’s A Swim in a Po…
After 600 film professionals signed an open letter against 'the far right' in the industry, the CEO of Canal+, a major production group owned by right-wing billionaire Vincent Bol…
Oscar-winning Spanish director Pedro Almodovar called Donald Trump, Benjamin Netanyahu and Vladimir Putin ‘monsters’.
A Norwegian reporter asked Narendra Modi why he wouldn’t speak to the media after a press conference in Oslo on Monday.
This year’s Cannes Film Festival has had a string of actors, writers and filmmakers speak publicly about the war in Gaza, the broader situation in Palestine and the risks faced by…