WE NEED to talk about what bombs do in war. Bombs shred flesh. Bombs shatter bones. Bombs dismember. Bombs cause brains, lungs, and other organs to shake so violently they
I SUPPOSE my title could have been couched in the singular form, as Hermann Hesse, the Nobel prize winning German/Swiss author, did with his collection of anti-war essays about World
Oh hell, what do mine eyes with grief behold? — John Milton, Paradise Lost PEOPLE were saying their evening prayers when the IDF attacked the refuge camp at Tel
HOW close are we to being in the movie? Leila and I went to the Baghdad Theatre, down the road from our apartment in Portland, Oregon, to see the new
AS AMAL Nassar lay in pain on a bed at the Al-Awda Hospital in the Nuseirat refugee camp in northern Gaza, the echoes of explosions and artillery fire could be
FRANCE’S Emmanuel Macron can, at times, show himself at odds with the grime and gristle of grounded politics. Able to pack in various snatches of philosophical reflection in a speech,
EARNING enough to pay the rent or mortgage, cover utility bills and travel costs, buy food and have the occasional coffee is difficult, impossible for many. But it’s not hard
THIS week, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, or ICC, applied for arrest warrants for three Hamas leaders, as well as Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and defence minister
Macron’s decision to send more troops to New Caledonia is a reflection of a serious breakdown of order in the island nation not seen since the 1980s, writes Mick Hall FEARS
WHEN Peta Jones Pellach raves about what she describes as the ‘wonderful event’, you can’t help but feel you missed out on something. On October 4, 2023, well over a