lynching

Vigilante justice: Pure Men, by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, reviewed

20 June 2026 9:00 am

The grotesque posthumous lynching of a homosexual by a frenzied mob prompts Sarr’s protagonist to investigate the shadow world of gay life in Senegal

Ghosts of the KKK still haunt American politics

23 March 2024 9:00 am

The extreme savagery of the ‘white knights’ may be a thing of the past, but echoes of the Klan were all over the shameful Capitol attack of 2021, says Kristofer Allerfeldt

The horrors of lynching

29 October 2022 9:00 am

Percival Everett’s 22nd novel The Trees was that rare thing on this year’s Booker shortlist: a genre novel. Only which…