JUNE 26. 2026

Christine Okoth: How Things Should Go

Margaret Busby acknowledges the importance of anthologists and editors in championing overlooked or underrepresented. ..

Colin Burrow: Dictionary Men

Guilt and pleasure are often codependent addictions, but for early modern authors the two were inextricable. The pedant. ..

Raymond N. MacKenzie: Platinum Noses

By the last decades​ of the 19th century, Jules Verne was less a writer than a brand – one carefully cultivated by his publisher, Pierre-Jules Hetzel – promising a specific mixture. ..

Susannah Clapp: At Dungeness

Here is​ an antidote to current traps and poisons. People who rescue rather than attack, who move in a physical, not a virtual, world, who don’t morally triage others. Who put themselves. ..

Jeremy Harding: Does he still jog?

For years politicians had taken it for granted that they could profit from the grey economy of French politics. Sarkozy. ..

Muhammad Shehada: ‘I would never release him’

Marwan Barghouti enjoys unparallelled popularity and is often described as Palestine’s Nelson Mandela. Like Mandela, ...

Adéwálé Májà-Pearce: At MOWAA

Nigeria is a complicated recipient of Western largesse: elites welcome it so long as domestic players, for whom it may. ..

Patrick Cockburn: Leap in the Dark

What would happen if these two very different societies were united, when their institutions and attitudes have evolved. ..

Seamus Perry: The poet slams his door

Michael Longley, who was all too familiar with protracted writer’s block, often spoke of precariousness in the sense. ..

Marina Warner: Adored Image

Celia Paul’s writings give every impression of translucency and quivering confession; she is an artist of self-. ..

Dani Garavelli: Short Cuts

Peter Murrell squandered the SNP’s reputation on £42,660 worth of Amazon packages and a necklace from a Shetland. ..

Alice Hunt: Honourable Chains

Despite not securing the succession, despite being Catholic, Catherine, queen of Great Britain from 1662 until Charles. ..

Colin Kidd: Realm of Coyness

Political uncertainty and the problem of communicating at a distance, especially between Jacobites in Britain and the. ..

William Davies: Burnham’s Political Economy

Whatever rash remarks he may have made about the bond markets or spending commitments, Andy Burnham understands. ..

JUNE 25. 2026

The Geopolitics of SpaceX and Elon Musk

Should one company—and one person—have this much power?

Restocking the Pentagon

Trump urges defense manufacturers to speed up weapons production after the Iran war.

Will Kenya’s Ruto Finally Reconcile with the Country’s Somali Minority?

The president has taken unprecedented steps to end a policy of exclusion, but suspicions remain.

As the Tide Turns Against Putin, Beware the Drowning Man

Like a struggling swimmer, he may take desperate measures to stay afloat.

Venezuela Reels From Twin Deadly Earthquakes

With thousands of people missing, the death toll is expected to rise.

Trump Claimed to Run Venezuela. After Earthquakes, He’s Walking That Back.

In January, Trump said “we’re in charge” of Venezuela. Amid a humanitarian crisis, they’re merely “our new and great friends. ”