'Regardless of John Kerry's personal priorities, Washington's foreign policy pivot to Asia remains valid'

Wednesday 17 April '13

As Indian and South Korea mark 40 years of diplomatic relations this year, South Korean Ambassador JOON-GYU LEE talks

Chavez and the oil curse

Saturday 9 March '13

The story of Venezuela under his rule can be told through the career of oil giant PDVSA

The Excitement of Apocalypse

Saturday 2 February '13

The few ways in which literature won at JLF 2013

Stopped at the Green Line

Friday 25 January '13

Israel''s secular and moderate half regained its voice just in time

Scrap Book

Saturday 19 January '13

Roberto Bolaño''s posthumous contribution to literature is immense. The publication of Woes of the True Policeman does not do justice to his reputation

Man with the golden boot

Wednesday 9 January '13

Messi''s glory is the individual''s. But behind him there''s always Barca

Roth in retrospect

Monday 19 November '12

Through five tumultuous decades, America met its match in Philip Roth

The rial challenge

Tuesday 16 October '12

Time and options are running out for the Iranian regime

A Tolchok in the Keeshkas

Saturday 6 October '12

Half a century on, A Clockwork Orange can still stun like a punch in the vitals

Something is Amis

Saturday 18 August '12

Lionel Asbo is less the state of England and more Martin Amis''s parting gesture

56 Vignettes

Saturday 21 July '12

A young man''s scorn for conventional literature spills out. Fans, kindly note, it is Bolano''s first novel

Colours of Europe

Friday 8 June '12

Was it a mistake to award Euro 2012 to Poland and Ukraine?

Imagining Nations

Saturday 14 April '12

A memoir writer and a novelist talk about homelands and exile

Is it all a game?

Saturday 4 February '12

Roberto Bolano is back with a war boardgame, mixing fact and fiction

Does Jerusalem close?

Monday 30 January '12

The lines and layers of the city on the hill, on a first visit

Heart of Evil

Saturday 17 December '11

Anna Funder''s debut novel is a reminder of the price that Nazi Germany extracted from individuals

The terrorist complex

Wednesday 9 November '11

Does Carlos the Jackal''s trial show we no longer romanticise terror?

Israel''s loss of imagination

Wednesday 21 September '11

Abbas will never be a Palestinian hero, but that will not cure Israel''s inertia.

Not involved at Centraco site: Areva

Tuesday 13 September '11

EDF too claimed the accident was "industrial, not nuclear".

Lines of Beauty

Saturday 10 September '11

In Alan Hollinghurst''s new novel, a dead Georgian poet and a Victorian mansion are pitched against the grand sweep of history.

Aum and Ashanti

Saturday 13 August '11

The moralising ambition of the novel eclipses its literary mechanics

Catching Yossarian

Thursday 11 August '11

The 'blasphemies'' of Joseph Heller''s masterpiece, 50 years on

Owning a madman

Thursday 28 July '11

Why Europe''s far-right cannot run away from Breivik now?

The Man in the Spare Room

Saturday 23 July '11

Ali Smith''s novel is an intellectual tour de force of serious playfulness.

Darjeeling''s deliverance

Thursday 9 June '11

Now Kolkata must look at Darjeeling as more than a summer holiday.