It is all in the looking around, the casting back, the recalling of the women reading German literature on the train while ...

Claims that Covid-19 was designed with nefarious intent are far-fetched. Although the initial cluster of infections in Wuhan ...

How is it that, for the first time to my knowledge, the charge of schematism can be levelled at the articles which l’Unità ...

Adom Getachew on Martin Thomas, The End of Empires. The violent history of twentieth-century decolonization, set in global ...

Tom Hazeldine on Tom McTague, Between the Waves. Story of the Powellite origins of Brexit, told by the New Statesman editor.

With Europe’s elites more willing to embark on a zombie rearmament than grapple with the divisions in their own hollowed ...

In 1943, at the height of the war against Nazism, Andrei Tarkovsky, the debut director of the Soviet film Ivan’s Childhood, ...

Emilie Bickerton introduces a selection from the intensive discussions that erupted after Tarkovsky’s first feature, Ivan’s ...

Often, when discussing new Soviet artistic and literary phenomena, there is a tendency to make them more intelligible by ...

Brazil’s presidential runoff on Sunday 25 October produced several historic outcomes. More than 128 million people voted, with the combined share of abstentions, spoilt ballots and blank votes ...

Rob Lucas on Edward Fishman, Chokepoints. An insider’s account of the US sanctions regime, its heroes the technocrats waging ...

No need to get ahead of ourselves: it will still be a few years before the AfD takes power. In the five German state elections held this year, while they were the only party to increase their vote ...