There’s no point in denying it anymore: literature as we know it is well on its way to becoming a lost art.

As a librarian, I’ve often felt like a part-time therapist. People confide in librarians the way they do with bartenders; we form bonds with our regular customers, listen to their troubles and serv…

“Nothing is stranger than this business of humans observing other humans in order to write about them,” Ruth Behar noted in The Vulnerable Observer:

1. On the evening of 27 December, I couldn’t find a free taxi to take me from my apartment in Grbavica to Sarajevo center. I called several companies. Imate li nešto? Ne. Nothing. After nearly half…

“Under siege, time is stolen piece by piece, and language shrinks to match the narrow space it is allowed. People abandon long sentences because every additional word must justify the power i…

Women work longer and per hour earn a third of what men are paid, in figures that have changed little in 35 years, UN report shows

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2025 was awarded to László Krasznahorkai "for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art"

Seventy years after the Montgomery bus boycott, policies hiding in plain sight continue to ravage the Black community

In her final unfinished work, Hannah Arendt mounted an incisive critique of the idea that we are in search of our true selves

In a world full of distractions, it can be difficult to form a habit that needs attention. Experts advise on getting out of the rut

The phrase - meaning to get angry scrolling through social media - beats aura farming and biohack to the title.

This collection of macabre stories set across England explores class, hierarchy and the enduring nature of inequality

Equality Trust study shows how House of Lords appointments, big donations and media concentration affects political decision Structural corruption and the rise of “conduits for unelected power” are reshaping British politics, according to a stark report from the Equality Trust. Unelected influence has surged over the past two decades, the report claims, driven by the growing political clout of the ultra-rich and the institutions that enable it. Continue reading...

Literary studies have been starved by austerity, but their core methodology remains radical.

The long read: The leftist party exploded out of Spain’s anti-austerity protests in 2011 and upended Spain’s entrenched two-party system. I was instantly captivated – and for the next decade, I worked for the party. But I ended up quitting politics in disappointment. What happened?