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"Everything ends in one minute." Palestine's national poet is dead, his words survive and burn (archive)
The prophetic message of Alexander Solzhenitsyn transcends the circumstances that gave rise to it
Plus: Memorial's tribute, Evgeny Morozov's cyber-war, and the Harvard address
The true project of the great Russian writer was spiritual rather than political
A lively London market offers a fresh view of the old story of England as a "heritage in danger"
A passionate, lyrical voice that embraced négritude, Marxism and surrealism is stilled
The shift from polymath to expert has diminished, but not withered, the garden of knowledge
Mai Ghoussoub explores the power of a prize-winning image of war-torn Beirut (archive)
France's pioneering feminist still shines on her centenary (archive)
A great English artist born 250 years ago fused empathy,
anger and love
Pippi
Longstocking's creator wrote for children and fought for justice
The Nobel laureate is a seeker and educator in
mysticism as well as a great novelist
The words of the fearless journalist murdered a year ago still burn (archive)
In an old civilisation's millennium, Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin's voice will be heard (archive)
The Geneva conventions began 143 years ago. Today, sophistry endangers the rights they protect (archive)
The author of Midnight’s Children and The Satanic Verses deserves his knighthood
Kurt Vonnegut worked through despair to infect a generation of Americans with humanity, says Christopher Bigsby. Read the rest of this post...
Teza the singer is in solitary confinement. A political prisoner of the Burmese junta, his world is now his cage. Read an excerpt from Karen Connelly's powerful novel of humanity, shame and survival. Read the rest of this post...
"Misunderstanding. Free world. Dilemma." A foreigner's first time in London, the dictionary holds all the answers. Read an extract from Xiaolu Guo's first novel written directly in English– a study of language lost and found. Read the rest of this post...
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