Algeria

The fresh, forceful voice of Frantz Fanon

9 March 2024 9:00 am

The Marxist from Martinique became a rallying figure for anti-colonial movements across the world. But might he have revised his violent message had he lived longer?

The Osnabrück witch trials echo down the centuries

8 October 2022 9:00 am

Absent mothers resonate in the latest offerings from two heavyweights of French literature. Getting Lost is the diary kept by…

Algeria’s War of Independence still leaves festering wounds, two new novels reveal

27 February 2021 9:00 am

In France, even the car horns yelled about Algeria. A five-beat klaxon blast — three short, two long — signalled…

Algeria reminds us that the current of colonisation doesn’t always run just one way

7 September 2019 9:00 am

As you glide in to land at the airport outside Algiers, the landscape resembles that of Tuscany: a coastal plain…

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The Outsider — from the viewpoint of the victim’s family

11 July 2015 9:00 am

In 1975 the Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe, in a lecture at the University of Massachusetts, identified Joseph Conrad’s Heart of…

Why does Isis slay hostages? To cover up the fact that it’s losing

10 January 2015 9:00 am

Isis slaughters kidnap victims because it guarantees headlines. It's better at slaughtering innocents than it is at winning wars