The Brazilian election is being viewed as a referendum on Donald Trump’s ability to reel in Latin America’s largest economy and last major left-wing holdout.

As Steve Reich turns 90, a chance encounter with the composer shows why his genre-hopping music holds such enduring appeal.

Richard Dawkins’s bestseller defined New Atheism, an intellectual fashion whose conclusions look increasingly irrelevant.

The socialite and civil servant was a devoted assistant to three very different foreign secretaries during the Second World War and its aftermath.

Grossman’s wartime reporting offers a searing account of the depths to which mankind fell in the middle of the last century.

Drug trafficking, money laundering and a compliant regime have sustained Hezbollah's presence in Venezuela for two decades. Since Maduro's fall, that haven is no longer secure.

In capturing the threads of shared culture and profound differences among a far-flung people, the photojournalist Ergun Çağatay shed light on what it means to be Turkic.

During the Second World War, Britain learnt that a propaganda campaign can only be won with accurate and credible reporting.

From the crude wines of the ancient world to the refined commercial product of the 21st century, the story of wine has always been intimately bound with that of human civilisation.

At a time when the United States is retrenching its military commitments in East Asia, Seoul and Tokyo must learn to compete for Washington's support within a rebalanced alliance system.

Nobel Prize-winning economist Daron Acemoglu’s call for a ‘working-class liberalism’ fails to address the underlying cause of liberal democracy’s woes: a lack of productivity.

The Irish-born Whig's time as envoy formed his view of Denmark as a lost cause, but a cautionary tale for the English: of how a country descends into absolutism.

Historian James M. Scott describes America’s bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in harrowing detail, while highlighting Japan’s obduracy, even when faced with the prospect of total annihilation.

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Finland's Winter War has become a national legend, while the Baltic states' surrender to Stalin in 1940 is remembered as a humiliation. But the story of Baltic submission is a myth.

Fifty years on, 'I, Claudius' remains a startling account of power, lust and statecraft.

John Coltrane was a spiritual searcher whose shimmering, joyful music pushed jazz to its limits.

Small modular reactors (SMRs) were first conceived for military use and deployed on polar bases. Seventy years on, their record remains dismal.

The Mecca Agreement could work as part of a web of narrower, overlapping alliances better suited to the region than any grand alliance.

The only anti-war party was struck off the ballot and online votes were counted by mysterious means. In Russia's latest exercise in democracy, the ruling party's landslide was never in doubt.

Simon Sebag Montefiore's wildly ambitious history of the region since 1900 is a richly illustrated guide to the law of unintended consequences.

Simon Sebag Montefiore's wildly ambitious history of the region since 1900 is a richly illustrated guide to the law of unintended consequences.

For Proust, serious art assumes its audience can acquire capacities it does not yet possess.

Transcendentalism, the visionary philosophy championed by figures such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, is the yin of the American Revolution.

Opera in Verona's ancient amphitheatre, open to the night sky, is a spectacle to be savoured.

The once-dominant centre-left party has just recorded its worst result in more than a century, but its relative endurance owes much to a pragmatic accommodation with markets.

The physicist Carlo Rovelli has written one book to make you feel better, and another to make you feel much worse.

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The new series of 'Fauda', whose cast and crew were caught up in 7 October and its aftermath, is a powerful elegy for the victims of the massacre.

The story of a KGB officer who fled revolutionary Tehran for Britain shows how misjudgements in Moscow, London and Washington deepened the Islamic Republic's suspicion of foreign powers.

The conventional narrative assumes economies can grow while using less energy. The opposite is happening. It is time for climate realism.

Philip Freeman's brisk life of Aristotle confirms how little the surviving record can tell us about the workings of the philosopher's mind.

The BRICS+ summit in New Delhi revealed an enlarged forum pulled in three directions by China, Russia and India.

The BRICS+ summit in New Delhi revealed an enlarged forum pulled in three directions by China, Russia and India.

More than $3.1 trillion has gone into American AI, much of it financed by debt pinned to unproven revenues. The industry may find that the only road to its prosperity runs through a crisis.

The US Open was dominated by players with Russian and Soviet roots. Almost none of them played under a Russian flag, another sign of the country's declining influence.

Sweden's four Tidö parties need an outright majority in Sunday's election to continue their programme of tougher policing, tighter migration and lower taxes.

Saxony-Anhalt is rich in history, but the last 30 years have been hard on it. The AfD's record win there has its roots in depopulation and industrial collapse.

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James Marriott's polemic 'The New Dark Ages' mourns the passing of the print age. But it oversells the triumphs of mass literacy, and says too little about the costs.

Beyond placing the enjoyment of food at the centre of French life, the school canteen is an outpost of the Republic where principles of secularism are enacted and preserved.

Frederico De Roberto's explosive portrait of a declining Sicilian dynasty deserves greater recognition.

Archaeologist Brian Fagan's investigation into the battles between hunters and conservationists, and the common ground they share, is enlightening.

To protect Europe from Russian aggression, Germans must resolve a tension that lies the heart of their modern national identity: a clash between the ideals of ‘Never Again Fascism’ and ‘Never Again Ge...