This three-minute phone call is the subject of A Dictator Calls, the last novel by the leading Albanian writer, intellectual ...

So: expectations can matter, and scare campaigns, if done properly, can make a difference.

It was 2014, Peter Dutton was health minister, and the Abbott government’s first budget announced that concession-card ...

Oliver Sacks is no longer with us, but bright new Olivers and Olivias are sure to be emerging at the turbulent interface of science and art. How will future generations understand their lives of ...

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Incensed by efforts to reinvent former Philippines dictator Ferdinand Marcos, a former foreign correspondent sets the record ...

The Georgian government’s overreach has galvanised opponents of its authoritarian turn ...

I don’t know what to do with myself. I need something to write about.” Anyone who’s faced the boredom and discomfort of ...

It was in 1951, when I was about to turn thirteen, that I rode up the Californian coast from Los Angeles to San Francisco with my stepfather. For some reason my mother had gone ahead and we were to ...