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Nobel prize winner Orhan Pamuk on Salman Rushdie’s attack, responding to extremism in Turkey – and his new, oddly prophetic, pandemic novel

In The Odyssey, an almost 3,000-year-old epic attributed to a poet known as Homer, the soldier Odysseus narrates most adventures in retrospect. The poem, which tells of Odysseus’ return from the Trojan War, is both the origin of our concept of nostalgia (from the Greek nostos meaning the journey home)…

We're now living in the aftermath of all that the Trump years unleashed. How do we escape this misogynist madness?

When it is published next year Old Babes in the Wood will mark the author’s first return to fiction since 2019’s The Testaments

American political violence could lead to unpredictable spillover events in Canada

‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ imagines a future in which the US has become a fundamentalist, authoritarian, theocratic regime known as Gilead

Welcome to Reason's summer banned books issue.

‘What a dark, depressing moment in history this is. I feel sick,’ one person wrote on Twitter

The former presidential candidate on negotiating with Putin, the ‘prophet’ Margaret Atwood — and why the Democrats need to rein in the radical left