review

For a long time, textile art was belittled as a women’s craft. A new exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam shows the subversive potential of this art form

Contemporary society has all but eradicated the caste system, right? Far from it, argues U.S. journalist Isabel Wilkerson

Xi Xi’s novel “My City” takes readers back to Hong Kong in the 1970s.

Politics clashes with everyday life in Brazil, in a story of sisterhood, race and religion. Itamar Vieira Junior’s debut novel thrives on this colourful mix

Assassin flies taste with their feet, scallops have 200 eyes, fishes are “swimming tongues”. Science journalist Ed Yong explores the weird and wonderful world of animal perception

Cheon Myeong-kwan's expansive novel “The Whale” retells South Korea's 20th-century history as a feminist fairy tale. Twenty years after its Korean publication, European readers can finally access a modern masterpiece

How to write about genocide: Scholastique Mukasonga reflects on her mother’s story to chart Rwanda’s troubled history.

In her debut novel, author Kayo Mpoyi digs deep into her own family history

Were gender relations hierarchical among prehistoric humans? Marylene Patou-Mathis has evidence to disprove this theory

Libraries, archives and manuscripts: ever since they have existed, they have also been at risk. Librarian Richard Ovenden has written a history of their destruction

Can the climate crisis still be halted? Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac, authors of the Paris Agreement, are determined to keep looking forward.

The Vietnamese author Nguyen Phan Que Mai tells a family tale from her war-ravaged land

Louise Erdrich talks about resistance by indigenous peoples in 1950s America

In his new novel, Mathias Énard observes French rural life in the 21st century as though it were a strange, foreign culture 

In her debut novel, Nana Oforiatta-Ayim defines both her European experience and her Ghanian roots 

In his new book, author Parag Khanna envisages a future in which we are all migrants 

In his new graphic novel, Guy Delisle illustrates the summer job he once had in a Canadian paper and pulp factory.