Present-day attacks on the right to free assembly have a long history behind them. For centuries, the rulers of ancient Rome ...

In the 1960s, the Indonesian dictator Suharto was responsible for one of the twentieth century’s bloodiest political ...

James Baldwin shaped a generation of American writers, many of whom later dismissed his humanistic outlook as naive. Today he ...

In The Life, Old Age, and Death of a Working-Class Woman, French writer Didier Eribon sees his mother’s passing as symbolic ...