A Swiftian satire of American racism still speaks to us nearly 90 years after it was first published

Survivors of the Holocaust and the Belfast Blitz have much to teach us about how to treat refugees

Illustration by Laura Hines

“This awful region, which should be sacred to men of science, is open to all. Nay, the very apartment where the gravid uterus and its processes lie unveiled is a favourite lounge of the ladies, who criticise aloud all the mysteries of sex.”

Joseph Forsythe, Remarks on Antiquities

Illustration by Jacob Stead

Illustration by Jacob Stead

Nabokov, Bellow, Hitchens and other heroes

Douglas Boyd Buchanan spent a lifetime in search of the great innovation

Tales of tax breaks and titillation

Colombia's peace deal was only the first step for the seven thousand rebels

Three new books reveal how we remain conflicted over the Bolshevik revolution, 100 years on