Meaza Worku still remembers the first time she stepped into the Ethiopian National Theatre—a cavernous building whose silence feels older than its walls. She ...

If you were wondering what the poem meant, I have no idea,” Patti Smith offered, after reading Rimbaud’s “Genie” on Monday ...

The project has highlighted a new generation of African poets and created a visually beautiful archive in the process.

Ambassador Berhanou Dinke passed away in Jefferson City, Missouri, in 1992—his shadow still stretching long across Ethiopia’s political and literary landscapes. His life remains a story of faith ...

Ben Luke discusses the landmark agreement with a curator at the Boston museum, meets the team behind MoMA's new Lam show, and explores a new book on the children of the Renaissance ...

Jim Potts is a poet, writer and filmmaker who was head of the British Council in Prague from 1986 to 1989. On a recent visit to Prague he shared his memories of the time.

The percolating instrumentation of ‘New York’, Ja Rule’s piercing 2004 posse cut, was playing on my TV, and ...

In the first of a two-part series, experts warn that without urgent action, drug-resistant infections could cause millions of ...

The Winter Olympics begin in Milan and Cortina; the Winter Paralympics follow in March. Ski mountaineering (climbing, then ...

Emirati novelist Reem Alkamali has been shortlisted for the Brics Literature Award, alongside writers from Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Ethiopia, Iran, Indonesia and Egypt.

The Mughal story, as Lally tells it, is less about crowns and conquest than about the quieter authority of documents and the steady shimmer of silver. Badshah, Bandar, Bazaar upends the familiar story ...