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Drew Forrest is a former deputy editor of the M&G
The artist’s latest exhibition, spanning 40 years, celebrates ‘the victory of memory over forgetting’
Belfast’s famous wall paintings provide a snapshot of relations between Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland. More than 25 years after the signing of the Good Friday…
DREW FORREST looks at the fierce academic controversies ignited by South Africa’s most recent hominin find
Drew Forrest uses one of South Africa’s most important hominid discoveries to debate the paradoxes and contradictions inherent in the religious doctrine of ‘ensoulment’
The United States’ vice-president has risen with lightning speed from hardscrabble beginnings
The roots of group violence in the deep past may explain the atrocities that are committed today
The resurgence of Japanese fiction owes much to the controversial genius of Yukio Mishima. Drew Forrest re-examines his final novel cycle
Israel’s seemingly limitless brutality is rooted in ‘the logic of dehumanisation’
Drew Forrest looks at the role of Victorian laissez-faire in the terrible Irish famine
There are marked parallels between the two countries’ liberation wars
DREW FORREST takes in a traditional Gaelic pastime at Ireland’s biggest sports arena
The director’s masterful, technically brilliant work is lacking in humanity
Twenty years ago, our analyst wrote that the ANC had not erred catastrophically enough in government to give the opposition a foot in the door
Was the terrible murder of seven aid workers part of the use of food as a weapon, which has claimed its first lives in Gaza?
Drew Forrest examines the battle between dogmatic faith and practical humanism in French master Albert Camus’ finest novel, ‘The Plague’
The presidential election merely confirms Russia’s descent into a full-blown military dictatorship
The cult of JS Bach’s solo cello works highlights a misguided modern tendency to deify the composer, argues Drew Forrest
In an interview with Drew Forrest, the Test opener insists our first-class game cannot be fixed using another, entirely different, format This content is restricted to registered…
Amid Israel’s increasingly unhinged siege of the enclave, Drew Forrest probes the country’s claim that it is fighting a war against terror
Fears persist that Gaza is to be rendered permanently unliveable and its people shunted to tent camps
