Out of shotTwo exhibitions explore dark moments in Uganda’s pastViolence haunts the pictures of Idi Amin’s era and the Lord’s Resistance Armyprint-edition iconFeb 26
Immortal wordsThe tragic genius of Abraham Lincoln’s second inauguralEdward Achorn’s rich history brings the inauguration of 1865 to lifeprint-edition iconFeb 26
JohnsonThe advantages of speaking a second languageThey are hard to measure. But it is a good idea anywayprint-edition iconFeb 27
The bedchamber and the axeThomas Cromwell, special adviserHilary Mantel’s hero is an avatar for contemporary anxieties about governmentprint-edition iconFeb 26
Remember, rememberA Kurdish artist memorialises the experiences of his peopleOsman Ahmed trekked with the Peshmerga, armed only with a pencil and a sketch-bookprint-edition iconFeb 20
The grey zoneCompromise and survival in Vladimir Putin’s RussiaJoshua Yaffa’s book charts the territory between defiance and collusionprint-edition iconFeb 20
Paradise lostWhose internet is it anyway?Memoirs by an alumna of Silicon Valley and an internet user chart the web’s historyprint-edition iconFeb 20
Rhapsody in blueThe legend of Levi StraussAn exhibition in San Francisco shows how American denim conquered the worldprint-edition iconFeb 20
Summit diplomacyA race to the top of the worldIn the 1930s great-power rivalry played out in the Himalayasprint-edition iconFeb 19
Beyond boom and bustThe world economy, from ancient Babylon to tech entrepreneurs“More”, by The Economist’s Bartleby columnist, is an entertaining chronicle of ten millennia of economic historyFeb 14
Too much of a good thingWhy an excess of democracy can lead to poor decisionsCutting back on people power can be beneficial, thinks Garett Jonesprint-edition iconFeb 13
Creepy crawliesThe Oscars triumph of “Parasite”And of its director, Bong Joon-ho, a persona non grata turned national heroprint-edition iconFeb 13
JohnsonThe original sins of grammarians still plague the rulebooksYou may not have heard of Robert Lowth. But his prejudices still hold swayprint-edition iconFeb 13
Laughter in the darkTom Stoppard’s haunting new play about the HolocaustSet in Vienna from 1899 to 1955, “Leopoldstadt” tells an acutely personal storyprint-edition iconFeb 12