Grab a cuppa and get to know translators David Colmer and David McKay. David and David will be in conversation with Jane Davis to discuss their work and career and to offer a glimpse into their creati...

Today Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) made history.

A winding down of operations in Gaza has allowed Israel to turn its attention to the West Bank, with devastating effects, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

Today, President Donald Trump ambushed Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky in an attack that seemed designed to give the White House an excuse for siding with Russia in its war on Ukraine.

In this intimate and insightful essay, Rosalind Harvey explores the complex emotional and professional terrain of literary translation, weaving together attachment theory, career precarity, and the un...

Germany embraced Israel to atone for its wartime guilt. But was this in part a way to avoid truly confronting its past? By Pankaj Mishra

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The award will be the biggest of its kind in Europe and aims to celebrate the work of an overlooked and underpaid profession facing an existential threat from AI

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I first became aware of Dutch writer Gerbrand Bakker's work back in 2013 when I read his novel The Detour, which went on to win the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize that year.  Since then, I've tried...

American-born queer poet and translator Egan Garr stirs up enthusiasm for two poets who showed an original voice in Dutch literature in recent years.

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The Israeli army has marked tens of thousands of Gazans as suspects for assassination, using an AI targeting system with little human oversight and a permissive policy for casualties, +972 and Local C...

In November 2023, actor, author, and former poet laureate of the Netherlands Ramsey Nasr wrote an op-ed on dignity in one of the leading Dutch newspapers. Nasr, whose heartfelt plea for the Palesti…

A superb history of the struggle for independence after three centuries of Dutch colonial rule

THE Islamic University of Gaza – which has a twinning programme with Glasgow University – lies in ruins.

Chris Hayes: “There is no terrorist attack, no matter how horrific—and truly Oct. 7 was horrific—that can wash clean what we are seeing in Gaza and what we as Americans and our government are ab...