THE WRITER AS MIGRANT by Ha Jin University of Chicago Press, £8, pp. 96, ISBN 9780226399881 £7.19 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 Three questions, labelled as 'Aristotelian' by the author, begin the Rice University Campbell Lectures delivered by Ha Jin in 2007: to whom, as whom, and in whose interest does a writer write? To ...

In the current, seemingly intractable phase of political terrorism, it behoves us to look back on and learn from similar waves of violent protest. Joseph Conrad's classic works of psychological and moral insight, Under Western Eyes and The Secret Agent, for instance, help us understand the terrorists of the late 19th and early 20th century, and Uli Edel's ...

Westminster, lunchtime On behalf of the paper I paid a rare visit to the No 10 lobby meeting today, an event I used to attend most days of the year. Friday mornings are usually quiet and fielded by a junior official, as happened today. We run through the PM's day. He's spending it working at Downing Street on ...