Taha in Barcelona: Spain learns of the life of a Palestinian poet

Taha Muhammad Ali felt the lifelong pain of displacement after Israeli forces took control of his beloved village in 1948. A pared-back one-man show of his life leaves the audience thinking of Gaza.

Samer Abou Hawwach

How Should a Liberal Be?

Bagehot: The Life andTimesof the Greatest Victorian.James Grant. Norton, 2019. 368pp. InJames Grant, it sometimes seems, the nineteenth century has been resuscitated. Towering, gaunt, bow…

Sebastian Mallaby