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Exiled Turkish journalist Ece Temelkuran offers a series of letters to those who, for whatever reason, are displaced ...

We meet the novelists behind a new wave of stories exploring the sexual fantasies of midlife women ...

Middle East, 1876: An extensive area of south-west Asia and northern Africa No matter how absurd it is to talk of a place called the “Middle East”, we persist in doing so. Given that the world is a ...

Epstein hosted a dinner at Harvard in 2004, with attendees including evolutionary biologist Robert Trivers (centre right). Credit: Alamy Stock Photo It was not a huge surprise to find myself in the ...

A scene from the Jack in the Green festivities in Hastings. © Alamy As I descend into the Old Town of Hastings, locals drape luscious garlands and leafy bunting from ...

If you feel pressure about your body, you’re not alone. Women have always had it bad – but now the health and beauty industries are coming for men, too. And the pressures are constantly deepening. In ...

Renting in England can be bleak. Many of us have lived, at some point in our lives, in a dingy, drafty, dilapidated flat, whose owner is squeezing as much profit as possible from the arrangement.

Hindutva, or Hindu nationalism, is often criticised for using religious identity and nationalist sentiment to assert the cultural supremacy of the Hindu majority in India, undermining the secular ...