What might a more equal dialogue look like in a fractious and divided world?

That includes those who take dialogue within and between different civilisations seriously as alternatives to liberal ...

Here’s why ‘there has never been a better time to be a criminal’

There has never been a better time to be a criminal,” the Welsh investigative journalist claims, detailing how easy it is for ...

The Disappearing Act by Maria Stepanova and Sasha Dugdale: A slim novella of disconnection

Stepanova’s wonderful In Memory of Memory (2021) was a weighty consideration of family legacy through objects and images; at ...

Damon Albarn’s creative output proves the musical magic of keeping office hours

Damon Albarn and his collaborators exude melancholy suffused with joy, or perhaps the other way around – those two states seem to coexist, Albarnesque-style, almost as if we can have more than one ...

Government should consider lifting ban on nuclear power, says economist John Fingleton

Irishman who chairs UK nuclear industry body says new nuclear generator technology presents opportunity to tackle climate challenge ...

James Ryan: the most influential minister not to have become taoiseach

Michael Loughman’s James Ryan and the Development of Independent Ireland, 1892-1970 is an eminently readable biography of an unjustly neglected politician ...

The Last of Earth: Deepa Anappara’s evocative tale of exploration and empire

In this absorbing novel, set in 1869, Deepa Anapara brings us on a journey to the roof of the world: the forbidden land of Tibet. To the highest place on earth, land of Buddhist monasteries, ...