Legendary foreign correspondent Steve Coll talks to Prospect about America's secret wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan

Western powers have been trying—and failing—to dictate what Islam should be for centuries. It's time for them to stop

Peterson's book is interesting, if not original. Where he loses the plot, though, is on gender relations

Simon Schama's new book tells a sometimes dark history—but sounds a fundamentally optimistic note

You can find true happiness, wrote Mujir al-Din, the 15th-century historian buried on the Mount of Olives, “eating a banana in the shade of the Dome of the Rock”

Britain leads the world in publishing but lags behind when it comes to actual hours curled up with a book

An Odyssey follows Mendelsohn’s father Jay, who in his eighties decides to complete the classical education he abandoned as a teenager

The mastermind behind the shows that have defined British comedy for a generation, including Alan Partridge and The Thick of It, speaks to Sameer Rahim

Ishiguro’s writing is not limited by style or genre. Instead, what he shows us is that a great writer doesn’t need to be a great “writer”

Idealisation can serve a purpose—even in fields like physics