Thousands of Israeli academics and artists have urged U.S. President Joe Biden and United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres to shun Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his scheduled visit to the U.S. next week.

The Boston Symphony Orchestra is sounding a somber note with a new season that will give musical expression to the horrors of war.

Polish Nobel literature laureate Olga Tokarczuk and Israeli novelist David Grossman are both in the running a second time for the International Booker Prize for fiction in English translation.