Han Kang is South Korea’s pride—and its conscience
We Do Not Part. By Han Kang. Translated by e. yaewon and Paige Morris. Hogarth; 272 pages; $28. Hamish Hamilton; £18.99 MOST ...
Hollywood’s Trump-baiting Oscars
Donald Trump’s election marked a “cultural tipping point”, Mark Zuckerberg declared as he hastily reorganised his company las...
British football hooligans are on the offensive once again
THE CONTEST between Arsenal and West Ham on February 22nd will be fierce. Probably not on the pitch: Arsenal is the strong fa...
How to help young Africans thrive
Some generations come of age just as their countries rise economically. Think of America’s baby boomers, China’s millennials ...
Egypt and Jordan are struggling to make themselves useful to Donald Trump
THE FIRST time was an honour. King Abdullah of Jordan was the first Arab leader invited to meet Donald Trump at the White Hou...
Leaving the seat of power
The arc of management bends towards sitting on your arse. You may intend to get away from your desk, but it holds you there n...
Pableaux Johnson, peerless host and chronicler of New Orleans
THERE were rules at Pableaux Johnson’s Monday dinners. No phones: pay attention to the people around you. Don’t sit next to s...
Only Asia can help America counter China’s shipbuilding prowess
AT THE Ulsan shipyard on the south-eastern coast of South Korea, vessels are assembled like Lego. Hulking cranes stack huge b...
Right-wing Britons are turning to e-petitions
There is something pleasingly anachronistic about Parliament’s e-petitions platform. Petitions have been presented to Parliam...
Rwanda tightens its grip over eastern Congo
Rulers of the Democratic Republic of Congo have rarely, if ever, fully controlled the east of Africa’s second-largest country...