Forest of Noise: PoemsA deeply powerful collection of poems about life in Gaza by award winning Palestinian poet, Mosab Abu Toha. Barely 30 years old, Mosab Abu Toha was already a well known poet when the current assault on Gaza began. After the Israeli army bombed his house, pulverising a library he had painstakingly built for community use, he and his family fled for their safety. Not for the first time in their lives. Somehow, amid the chaos, Abu Toha kept writing

spaces that have always existed and will always exist

to keep hope alive today

After expounding his Sufi philosophy of death and showing the importance of the contemplation of human mortality to the mystical way of self-purification

Hannah Arendt's chilling analysis of the conditions that led to the Nazi and Soviet totalitarian regimes is a warning from history about the fragility of freedom

Niels Mulder

and Flies – dedicated to pest control and private investigation

In ten essays

Based on hundreds of interviews and thousands of hours of fieldwork over more than a decade

revolutionised the lives of disabled people and put the climate crisis at the top of the agenda

finds herself sleepwalking at night

Nguyen explores the idea of being an outsider through lenses that are

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