Sonny Rollins, who died this week, was the embodiment of the genre itself. In August 1958, Esquire invited 58 jazz musicians to meet on a stoop in Harlem for a photo shoot. The re…
Assessing the broader political landscape in Syria, Khalil asserted that the revolution in Syria for freedom and democracy remains unfinished and that the polit
Meat is not to be consumed on a Friday – Jesus died on a Friday. And there you are, settling in to feast on roast venison and red wine? Gluttony is a sin, FYI. You must understand…
Why Michael Crichton’s best novel flopped when it was adapted to film. | Lit Hub Film Mary Berman remembers the “gut-churning” experience of showing her parents her debut novel. |…
Miles Davis, the trumpeter, band leader, innovator, proud African American and icon of cool, would be celebrating his 100th birthday on 26 May had he not departed in 1991. His sou…
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Somebody occasionally points out that vastly more words have been published about Kafka than Kafka himself wrote in his lifetime. Somebody’s probably writing a book about Kafka th…
Earlier this month, Mario Tama, a photojournalist with Getty Images, traveled to Yellowstone National Park to photograph some of its spectacular scenery and wildlife, ahead of upc…
In 2003, the film Sylvia, starring Gwyneth Paltrow as Sylvia Plath and Daniel Craig as Ted Hughes, told the notorious and troubled story of Plath’s seven-year marriage to Hughes a…
US President Donald Trump wants Pakistan and some other Muslim-majority nations to normalize ties with Israel. While joining the Abraham Accords has its benefits for Islamabad, th…
The News Quiz was recorded last week at the Hay Festival, a book-besotted bastion against the consolidation of all human communication into anonymised insults and half-second-long…
Must-read literary fiction of summer 2026, recommended by Five Books deputy editor Cal Flyn: novels that should make your to-be-read list.