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Reliving the terror of the Bataclan massacre
Emmanuel Carrère knows when to let the horrors speak for themselves in his moving, hard-hitting account of the trial of the perpetrators
Nigeria’s abduction epidemic and the silence of the west
Every day, more and more children are going missing in Nigeria. At least 140 schoolchildren were kidnapped in Nigeria’s northwestern Kaduna city yesterday.…
Jokes or gags?
Here are a couple of books that seek to tackle the difficult issue of comedy on the front line. One…
The carnage inside Charlie Hebdo: an eyewitness’s account of the attack
It is almost five years since two trained jihadists went into the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris and killed…
High life
When I hear the words Sykes-Picot I more often than not feel like punching an Englishman or a Frog —…
Hard times for Hamas
The party is out of favour with its foreign neighbours and with ordinary Gazans
