The AP’s documenting of the mass graves in Iraq and Syria has led to barely an eyebrow being raised in the West, writes Andrew Nagorski.

MILAN Kundera’s first novel in 14 years is a short, amusing, and thought-provoking meditation on the nature of insignificance. 

Encounter

TWO columnists on this page recently went into the business of prophecy. One was Pat Brosnan, who attacked the initially proposed Government aid for tsunami victims as ‘paltry’, ‘risible’ and ‘peanuts’ and added the prophecy that by the time readers would see his column in the newspaper, the Government might have increased the sum offered.