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literatureA journey through popular and ancient literature, from all corners of the globe.
"Everything ends in one minute." Palestine's national poet is dead, his words survive and burn (archive)
The prophetic message of Alexander Solzhenitsyn transcends the circumstances that gave rise to it
Plus: Memorial's tribute, Evgeny Morozov's cyber-war, and the Harvard address
The true project of the great Russian writer was spiritual rather than political
A lively London market offers a fresh view of the old story of England as a "heritage in danger"
A passionate, lyrical voice that embraced négritude, Marxism and surrealism is stilled
The shift from polymath to expert has diminished, but not withered, the garden of knowledge
Mai Ghoussoub explores the power of a prize-winning image of war-torn Beirut (archive)
France's pioneering feminist still shines on her centenary (archive)
A great English artist born 250 years ago fused empathy,
anger and love
Pippi
Longstocking's creator wrote for children and fought for justice
The Nobel laureate is a seeker and educator in
mysticism as well as a great novelist
The words of the fearless journalist murdered a year ago still burn (archive)
In an old civilisation's millennium, Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin's voice will be heard (archive)
The Geneva conventions began 143 years ago. Today, sophistry endangers the rights they protect (archive)
The author of Midnight’s Children and The Satanic Verses deserves his knighthood
Kurt Vonnegut worked through despair to infect a generation of Americans with humanity, says Christopher Bigsby. Read the rest of this post...
Teza the singer is in solitary confinement. A political prisoner of the Burmese junta, his world is now his cage. Read an excerpt from Karen Connelly's powerful novel of humanity, shame and survival. Read the rest of this post...
"Misunderstanding. Free world. Dilemma." A foreigner's first time in London, the dictionary holds all the answers. Read an extract from Xiaolu Guo's first novel written directly in English– a study of language lost and found. Read the rest of this post...
The second of two short-story selections from a new anthology on literature from the "axis of evil". The bittersweet tale of two Korean brothers living in Japan after the Korean war. Read the rest of this post...
The first of two short-story selections from a new anthology on literature from the "axis of evil". The tale of a dictatorial Iranian school teacher is a sweeping satire of censorship and free speech. Read the rest of this post...
2007 marks sixty years of the partition of India and the birth of Pakistan. Sadat Hasan Manto was one of the first writers to creatively depict that era. Read his darkly comic and poignant short story of separation, creation and a no-man's land. Read the rest of this post...
Zora Neale Hurston's tale of oppression, morality and sexual power in the rural American south of the 1920s. Read the rest of this post...
A seasonal, life-affirming moment in eternity recalled in the gleam of Edwin Morgan's eye; in his home city, Glasgow, where else?
The reception of Orhan Pamuk's Nobel award in Turkey is charged with the political tensions inside the country and in its relationship with Europe, says Daria Vaisman. Read the rest of this post...
Extract from Anatoly Mariengof’s controversial memoir, which was banned for sixty years, of the turbulent life of Russia’s “people’s poet” Sergey Esenin. Read the rest of this post...
The Nobel literature award belongs to Orhan Pamuk and Turkey alike, says the Istanbul editor of the Armenian-Turkish newspaper Agos, Hrant Dink. Read the rest of this post...
Orhan Pamuk forges a literature for the world from the intimacies of his Istanbul, and in so doing gives Turkey's experience universal stature, says Anthony Barnett. Read the rest of this post...
Concerns about the safety of China's food are on the rise. In the final excerpt from the Ulysses Award series, Zhou Qing looks at the underside of food production, from opiates in soup to pesticides in pickles. Read the rest of this post...
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