But during the Great Purge he was arrested and tortured; he confessed to having worked undercover for Russia’s enemies and ...

The Rise of Painting, 1300–1350’ at the National Gallery in London until 22 June is therefore trailblazing, as well as being ...

Rediscovering America in the Gilded Age by Peter Brooks; On Writers and Writing: Selected Essays by Henry James (Edited by ...

A Memoir by Josephine Baker (Translated from French by Anam Zafar & Sophie Lewis); Josephine Baker’s Secret War: The African ...

Augusto Pinochet ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990. Under his aegis, over three thousand people were killed by agents of the state; many more were tortured. But Pinochet never served a day in prison. An ...

It’s a bit late now; we’re a third of the way through and there’s a lot more of this to come.’ A lot of what comes in William ...

A room full of women sleeping in low beds, heavily sedated with drugs and given frequent electric shocks, sounds like something from a Soviet gulag. Such a place could in fact be found near Waterloo ...

Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966) has long been seen as one of the greatest Russian poets of the last century. She came to fame with her first book of love poems, Evening (1912). Many of her concise, ...

‘South America’, declared the North American Review in the early 19th century, ‘will be to North America what Asia and Africa are to Europe.’ ‘Not quite,’ says Greg Grandin. But also not for want of ...

The early Stuarts are back in fashion. Within a year, three major books on the subject have appeared: one by Susan Doran, examining the change of dynasty from the Tudors, another by Stephen Alford on ...

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