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When motorists travelling on the Begin Boulevard, the roughly ten-mile stretch of highway that runs north of Jerusalem to the city of Ramallah in the West Bank, see an opening [...]

Lapland is not an easy place. In Finland's sparsely populated northernmost region, which for six months of the year is buried in drifts of snow, winter temperatures can plunge to [...]

A is for Abu Ghraib In 2004 a series of grainy photographs were leaked and shocked the world. They showed US soldiers smiling at the camera as they abused detainees [...]

Mother State: A Political History of Motherhood Helen Charman Allen Lane, 512pp, 30 [pounds sterling] Is child-rearing political or deeply personal? A new history reckons with the tension between mother [...]

For the first time in more than nine months, Raja Shehadeh was a long way from home. When I sat down with the 73-year-old Palestinian author and human rights lawyer [...]

The Furies: Three Women and Their Violent Fight for Justice Elizabeth Flock Viking, 304pp, 18.99 [pounds sterling] In Greek mythology, as in life, there is no shortage of stories in [...]

The Boundless River by Mathijs Deen MacLehose Press, 320pp, 22 [pounds sterling] When the Dutch writer Mathijs Deen first considered writing a biography of the Rhine, he imagined the river [...]

Jens Stoltenberg, Nato's secretary-general since 2014, knows the importance of a measured response. When we meet in central Brussels, less than 72 hours after a missile had exploded in the [...]

The Damascus Events: The 1860 Massacre and the Destruction of the Old Ottoman World by Eugene Rogan Allen Lane, 400pp, 30 [pounds sterling] In 1989, the American historian Eugene Rogan [...]

The Incarcerations: BK-16 and the Search for Democracy in India by Alpa Shah William Collins, 672pp, 30 [pounds sterling] Beginning in the summer of 2018, authorities across India arrested an [...]

Veiled Threat: On Being Visibly Muslim in Britain by Nadeine Asbali Biteback Publishing, 288pp, 18.99 [pounds sterling] When Nadeine Asbali decided, aged 14, to start wearing a hijab while visiting [...]

About 90 minutes into Once Upon a Time in Iraq, James Bluemel's award-winning five-hour documentary on the Iraq invasion and its aftermath, we meet Alaa Adel. She is an astonishingly [...]

Alexandria: The City That Changed the World by Islam Issa Sceptre, 496pp, [pounds sterling]30 During his brief but storied life, Alexander the Great founded many cities that bore his name. [...]

Mobility by Lydia Kiesling Crooked Media Reads, 368pp, 22.59 [pounds sterling] We tell ourselves stories in order to live. But what sort of stories, and what sort of lives do [...]

After the Brexit referendum, the partygate scandal, Liz Truss's mini-Budget or any number of the brazen political acts carried out by successive Tory administrations in recent years, it's hard to [...]

The Russo-Ukrainian War by Serhii Plokhy Allen Lane, 400pp, 25 [pounds sterling] Over the past year there's been no rationing of books on the war in Ukraine, as publishers have [...]

It began with a trip to Tehran. Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman from northwest Iran, was visiting family in the capital with her brother in September when she was detained [...]

This spring the prime ministers of Sweden and Finland made a pair of historic announcements: on 15 May Magdalena Andersson and Sanna Marin declared that their respective countries would end [...]

It's hard to argue with the voice of reason. In April Jonathan Haidt, an American social psychologist at New York University, published an essay titled 'Why the past ten years [...]

Shalash the Iraqi by Shalash, translated by Luke Leafgren And Other Stories, 352pp, 11.99 [pounds sterling] In the autumn of 2005, more than two years after the US-led invasion of [...]

Burning Questions Margaret Atwood Chatto & Windus, 496pp, 20 [pounds sterling] A lot of people want to know what Margaret Atwood thinks. Now 82, the Canadian novelist, poet and prolific [...]

Spare a thought for Francis Fukuyama's Twitter mentions, in the weeks since Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February, the American political theorist has been routinely told by gleeful critics that [...]

I Am Still With You: A Reckoning with Silence, Inheritance and History by Emmanuel Iduma William Collins, 288pp, 16.99 [pounds sterling] During the late 1960s shocking images were shared around [...]

During the nearly half a decade she has been in office, Iceland's prime minister Katri'n Jakobsdottir has built a reputation for quietly obliterating expectations. She is consistently voted the most [...]

White Torture: Interviews with Iranian Women Prisoners by Narges Mohammadi Oneworld Publications, 272pp, 20[pounds sterling] As civil unrest continues in Iran--prompted by the murder in September of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini [...]

Diary of an Invasion by Andrey Kurkov Mountain Leopard Press, 304pp, 16.99 [pounds sterling] Even the closest observer of Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine might be surprised to learn how [...]

How I Survived a Chinese 'Re-education' Camp by Gulbahar Haitiwaji and Rozenn Morgat, translated by Edward Gauvin Canbury Press, 256pp, 18.99 [pounds sterling] The details of Gulbahar Haitiwaji's memoir--billed as [...]

Freedom: How We Lose It and How We Fight Back by Nathan Law with Evan Fowler Transworld, 240pp, 12.99 [pounds sterling] A nation's slide into authoritarianism is a bit like [...]

In 2019, over the course of a chilly February weekend, the Catholic Church seemed as though it was on the verge of a reckoning. For four days, Pope Francis convened [...]