“Don’t bear me ill will, speech, that I borrow weighty words / then labor heavily so that they may seem light,” Wisława Szymborska writes in “Under One Small Star.” Szymborska kep…
We didn’t realise it, but Christopher Nolan has been making The Odyssey for almost three decades. There is some of it in Memento (2000), as a man struggles to pull together the th…
Both sides face pressure points that could make a protracted war painful. The US and Iran are locked in an escalating cycle of attacks, after the fifth consecutive day of US strik…
Today, J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye turns 75. Despite mixed early reviews, the book quickly became a touchstone of American literature, and an icon of American culture i…
The EU's top court has backed a Spanish law giving amnesty to Catalan separatists over the independence referendum. The deal let Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez stay in office in 202…
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on July 15 that Türkiye remains a source of hope for “the oppressed” across the Middle East and beyond, as the country marked the 10th annivers…
Türkiye has engaged in a new round of efforts for the resumption of negotiations between Russian and Ukrainian officials in the Istanbul format as Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan pai…
The Falkland Islands have been at the heart of a long-running dispute between the United Kingdom and Argentina.
Russian strikes on Kiev killed two people and wounded at least five others, including a child, Ukrainian emergency services said on July 16, after explosions rocked the capital sh…
A full inventory of all the books written by Emily Henry, bestselling author of hit romantic comedies Beach Read and Funny Story
Germany's upper house of parliament, the Bundesrat, has introduced a bill seeking to ban the questioning of Israel's right to exist. It is now up to the lower house to decide whet…
Literature explores the breadth of human experiences, even those behaviors and thoughts we find abhorrent. Characters who are cruel, malicious, and heartless are typically the vil…