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With great sadness, the IRR announces the death of John Kane-Berman, former CEO and a long-standing pillar of South African liberalism.

A panel of journalists who have recently spent time covering the war in Ukraine discusses the situation on the ground there and in the surrounding region, and policy considerations for the United Sta…

The day Ukraine was invaded, one of my friends texted a former Russian colleague, expressing his shock. The reply was chilling. In an instant, a man…

From Ukrainian history to Putin’s kleptocracy and Gogol’s stories, author and former Russia correspondent Oliver Bullough chooses the best titles

Ahead of the release of 'The Fervor,' Alma Katsu's supernatural reimaging of Japanese internment, here are her favorite historical horror novels

Online Writers Workshop, Online Monthly Classes taught by published authors and industry professionals and Robust Literature Magazine with Columns, Interviews, Reviews and more.

In 1946, George Orwell wrote an essay in which he outlined the four main reasons for writing. One was egoism, another “aesthetic enthusiasm”. The third was “historical impulse… the desire to find out true facts and store them up for the use of posterity.” This was closely linked to the fourth, “political purpose”, which he described as “the desire to push the world in a certain direction, to alter other people’s idea of the kind of society that they should strive for.” ...