Jonathan Powell, Britain’s national security adviser, outside 10 Downing Street, London, last year.

Thélyson Orélien in Montreal earlier this year.

Maiken Baird, left, directed the documentary on Edward Said, and Sarah Mowaswes, center, was one of its producers. Mr. Said’s daughter, Najla Said, right, was also part of the filmmaking process.

Sally Rooney in Dublin in 2021.

The interior of Rules, a British mainstay in the Covent Garden neighborhood of London. In the centuries since it opened, the restaurant has served London’s wealthy and wordy, its royals and its regulars.

The cover of the “Book of Revelation,” which was created by Salvador Dalí.

Thélyson Orélien in Montreal earlier this year.

Iqaluit, the capital of the Inuit territory of Nunavut, is only accessible by air or by seasonal sealift.

Cheikh Hamidou Kane in 2011. Mr. Kane subtly captured the shock of colonization from the perspective of the African people.

Outside the SEG Plaza in Shenzhen last year.

A woman reads at a bookstore in Beijing in August. “Jane Eyre” has found generations of readers in China since it was first translated into Chinese a century ago.

The author Thélyson Orélien at a cafe in Montreal’s Côte-des-Neiges neighborhood in April.

The Ranok Publishing warehouse in Kharkiv, Ukraine, after it was struck twice by Russian drones in August.

Earl Spencer, during an interview with the BBC this month. His new book, “Swan Song: Diana, My Sister,” comes out on Tuesday.

Princess Diana

Gulzar at his home in Mumbai in July. He maintains the wonder that has fueled his work.

Teresios Bundi, who ran an essay-writing business catering to overseas students, said his experience with artificial intelligence was a warning for online gig workers.

Crime novels on display in a bookstore in Reykjavik, Iceland.

Andrea Bajani in Rome last year. An English translation of his best-selling novel, “The Anniversary,” will be published on Tuesday.

A flotilla of about 50 boats carrying humanitarian aid departed Marmaris, Turkey, in May, intending to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza. Israeli forces boarded the boats and detained 400 people.

Hu Anyan’s memoir, “I Deliver Parcels in Beijing,” became a best seller in China and was later translated into English. It is a diaristic account of the 19 jobs he held over two decades across China.

Arno Meyns, a Belgian activist, at Istanbul’s airport in May after being released and deported by Israel. He said he was beaten in custody.

Sarah Dillon, a professor of English literature, with Alan Turing’s handwritten short story in the Archive Centre at King’s College, Cambridge.

Pope Leo XIV has been a steady critic of the U.S.-Israeli war in Iran.

Lam Wing Kee in 2020 at the Causeway Bay Bookstore in Taipei, Taiwan. Taiwan’s ministry of culture saluted the store as “an inspiration and role model for democracy, liberty and human rights across borders.”

Police officers loading confiscated items from Have A Nice Stay, an independent bookstore in Hong Kong on Wednesday.

A view of Sazan Island, once the site of Italian, Soviet and then Albanian military bases, now in ruins.

Mona Khalil in Mansuri, Lebanon, in 2004.

A sculpture of Alexander Pushkin made of paper at a bookstore in St. Petersburg, Russia, this week.

Marjane Satrapi in 2022. She was one of the best-known exponents of a form of graphic novel that combined political history and memoir.

Edgar Morin in 2003. “I have a permanent sense of the mystery of all things,” he said. “I still have no idea why I was born, why I exist.”

Argentine security forces seizing a young man in 1982 in Buenos Aires during the Dirty War.

An excavation in St. Peter and Paul’s Church in Wolder, the Netherlands, to see if remains found in the church belong to Count d’Artagnan, who was dramatized, fictionalized and immortalized in Dumas’s “The Three Musketeers.”

The Haitian poet and novelist Thélyson Orélien at a café in Montreal’s Côte-des-Neiges neighborhood.

The Henson House at the Josiah Henson Museum of African-Canadian History in Dresden, Canada.

Rosanna Sparapano and Miguel Gobbo Diaz, actors in a new revival of “Jitney,” at the final dress rehearsal of the Sardegna Teatro production in Sardinia, Italy.

Michael Bloomberg, left, King Charles III and Queen Camilla laid flowers at the 9/11 memorial on Wednesday morning, the first of several stops during the royal couple’s visit to New York City.