In Through the Looking Glass, Humpty Dumpty proclaims, 'When I use a word it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less'. He then declares, 'The question is which is to be master — ...

The 194 member states’ union, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), has launched the ...

In 2015 the novelist Ali Smith was invited to tell the story of a former detainee. Ten years on, she explains why the project is more necessary than ever ...

Theft explores the changing lives of Badar, Karim and Fauzia, three characters whose material and metaphorical destinies ...

This novel follows the quiet yet profound coming-of-age of Yusuf, a boy navigating servitude, identity and cultural loss in ...

Abdulrazak Gurnah (Lane + Co) By titling it Theft, Gurnah has elevated the range of explanations for even the novel’s minor reflections.