Thomas M. Disch has been called by one critic "very likely the finest intellect in science fiction today." He is more than that, however. He is one of the finest writers of fiction today. Disch is a writer who constantly challenges the ultimately limitin...

Polymath poet Tom Disch is also one of the most talented of the "New Wave" of science-fiction writers who emerged in Great Britain (where Disch lived for a time and where he published much of his early fiction and all of his early poetry) in the 1960s. (...

THE CONVICTION of a Bosnian Serb general last week on the charge of genocide at an international tribunal marks a victory for the principle of legal accountability for war crimes, but it also raises questions of whether the crimes committed in July 1995 in...

THE MORAL ORDER we inhabit fell into focus on Thursday, and it was an awful moment. In an act without precedent since the U.N. Genocide Convention was adopted in 1948, a government accused a sitting counterpart of genocide -- a genocide, moreover, that even...

Rwanda's first post-genocide leader walked free from prison Friday after a surprise presidential pardon of his convictions that included inciting ethnic tension.Pasteur Bizimungu was freed after serving two years of a 15-year term as an act of clemency by President Paul Kagame to build national...

Fifty-three Nobel laureates are calling on Turkey and Armenia to open their border and resolve their differences over the mass killings of Armenians by Turks in the early 20th century.In a letter released Monday by the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity, the group urged Turkey...