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Undergraduates gathered outside the New University of Lisbon’s Faculty of Human and Social Sciences last month. As traffic sped by on the Avenida de Berna, they used stencils and aerosols to ...

In his new memoir, Knife, Salman Rushdie composes an imaginary dialogue with the man who attacked him on 12 August 2022 as he was about to give a talk in the town of Chautauqua in New York State.* He ...

On 25 April, a large group of students at the University of California, Los Angeles, set up an encampment on the ...

The protests have shown that the American university, which operates more and more as a high-cost degree factory ...

The evening sky on Friday lit up with a bright auroral display. Such phenomena are usually confined to the polar ...

Nye, approaching the end of its run at the National Theatre, tells the story of Nye Bevan’s life and the creation of the NHS. Written by Tim Price, directed by Rufus Norris and starring Michael Sheen, ...

The killings in Israeli prisons that Ghassan referred to include the torturing to death of Adnan al-Bursh, the head of orthopaedic surgery at al-Shifa Hospital (and a Kings College London graduate) in ...

In A House for Mr Biswas, his 1961 comic masterpiece, V.S. Naipaul pays tribute to his father and the vanishing world of his Trinidadian youth. Pankaj Mishra joins Adam Shatz in their first of four ...

The first room of Zineb Sedira’s exhibition Dreams Have No Titles (at the Whitechapel Gallery until 12 May) is both inviting and confusing. A dancefloor has been framed on the parquet, labelled here ...

The earliest astrolabe in the Museum of the History of Science in Oxford was made in Syria in the ninth century and is inscribed with text in Arabic and later additions in Armenian. Two made in ...