When Jews were being slaughtered by the Nazis, the world turned away. Now, the world has awakened to Israel’s crimes.

A response to Matan Kaminer. By Andreas Malm

Books will live on if we allow them to remain. We will need a tactile world to remind us that we are still here, that we can suffer and heal, make considered judgments, and love in a way that only biological beings can.

Dr Ralph Wilde

When retired postman Rodney Holbrook set up cameras to discover who was tidying his shed almost every night, he found an unexpected helper scurrying around his workbench.

Sizeable Jewish and Muslim communities lived across large swathes of medieval Western Europe. But all the Muslim communities and almost all the Jewish communities in polities that correspond to present-day England, France, Hungary, Italy, Portugal, and Spain were eradicated between 1064 and 1526. Most studies of ethnoreligious violence in Europe focus on communal, regional, and national political dynamics to explain its outbreak and variation. Recent scholarship shows how the Catholic Church in medieval Europe contributed to the long-term political development and the “rise of the West.”

In 2007, Declan Maynes bought himself a camera, the book Film Making For Dummies and went out on his own to interview numerous tattoo artists and experts around the world. When he came back to his home in Vienna he sat down in his kitchen and edited his first feature-length film: "TATTOOED The Movie". Declan's film won acclaim at international film festivals including the prestigious INDIE SPIRIT Award.

Indigenous chefs and authors discuss the beloved and thorny legacy of the food.

Another [Long Reads] special episode about the Israeli war on Gaza

Fertile soil known as Amazonian dark earth is central to the debate over the size and ecological impact of ancient human populations in the Amazon. Dark earth is typically associated with human occupation, but it is uncertain whether it was created intentionally.

Japan's Ainu people have their own history, languages and culture. But, as the victims of colonialism, assimilation and discrimination, much of that identity has been lost. This is the story of their fight to be recognised.

Harald Bluetooth is the most famous of Viking leaders, celebrated for unifying the people of Denmark during his reign from 958 to around 985 CE.

New statistics show a spike in the amount of journalists jailed in the country. To protect its democracy, Israel needs to be transparent about why members of the media are arrested.

An archaeologist uses climate data and tailoring tools to trace the origins and evolution of Paleolithic clothing in colder climates.

What Michael Hudson learned about Palestinians from the Mossad 50 years ago: "The aim all along has been to kill them."

As elephants wander the African savannah, they might keep in touch with relatives by calling out their individual 'names'.

Successive foreign governments plunged it into unpayable debt and left its citizens in penury