A man who invents himself needs someone to believe in him... Not only the need to be believed in, but the need to believe in another. You've got it: Love.

One of the characteristics of mudslinging is that mud sticks if it's thrown with enough force for long enough.

Laila Lalami has fashioned an absorbing story of one of the first encounters between Spanish conquistadores and Native Americans, a frightening, brutal, and much-falsified history that here, in her brilliantly imagined fiction, is rewritten to give us something that feels very like the truth.

I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire.

The whole story of migration and what that has done in interconnecting the planet is obviously something I've written about a lot.

British society has never been cleansed of the filth of imperialism.

A thing that happens to migrants is that they lose many of the traditional things which root identity, which root the self.