On Friday, 27 September, we felt the whole of Beirut shake. A huge plume of smoke was visible across the city.

When Israel bombarded Beirut on 27 September, killing hundreds of people, the BBC headline was ‘Beirut rocked ...

For Biden, the killing of Nasrallah provided a ‘measure of justice’ for Hizbullah’s victims, from the 1983 bombings of the US ...

According to their publicity material, the Tokyo-based duo Incapacitants deploy feedback, vocals and ‘various electronics’ to generate noise for the sake of noise. At their gigs, seats and tables are ...

Wilfred Owen wrote ‘Strange Meeting’ in the early months of 1918, shortly after being treated for shell shock at Craiglockhart hospital in Edinburgh, where he had met the stridently anti-war Siegfried ...

Labour members have long used the party conference to push for a more humanitarian approach to immigration and ...

Smart undergraduates like them can recognise the exploitation but can go no further without experience. Could there be a way to capture some of love’s profit for themselves? There is naivety in their ...

One of the most fascinating aspects of Wei Shujun’s film Only the River Flows is the continuing contrast between ...

If you want to get to know someone, especially if you’re an ancient historian, you should go through their rubbish. At the end of the 19th century, two Oxford academics, Bernard Grenfell and Arthur ...

The great American film directors have suffered from a common predicament. Democratic fealty and, more important, financial constraint meant they were bound to respect popular taste. That requirement ...

In his preface to the new edition of My Search for Warren Harding, Robert Plunket remembers being in the room with George W. Bush when he was told that a second plane had hit the Twin Towers. Bush was ...