“The only way to fight a false story told well is to tell a true story better.”
Q&A with Suketu Mehta, author of "This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant's Manifesto".
Politics & Conflict
Book review: Placeless People
Lyndsey Stonebridge's book about displacement attempts to find words to articulate the horror of being without a home.
Book review: This Is Not Propaganda
Peter Pomerantsev's new book documents how we increasingly live in a virtual world governed neither by borders nor law or reason.
The empire strikes back
Many pundits connect Brexit to imperial nostalgia – but its relationship with national identity is complex.
Imagined communities
Usually associated with the political right, nationalism is dynamic and versatile enough to take liberal and left-wing forms too.
Perestroika in Central Asia?
Following the death of the late Uzbek dictator Islam Karimov, reform is finally in the air.
A welcome change in Northern Ireland
After years of campaigning, laws bringing abortion and marriage rights into line with the rest of the UK have passed.
“Laughing is not a political action”
Q&A with Ece Temelkuran, author of "How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship".
Book review: Under Pressure
Faruk Šehić's novel, an unflinching account of the conflict in Bosnia, explores the futility and brutality of war.
Blood on the terraces
Football is supposed to bring people together, but across disputed borders, even team names can become political weapons