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

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

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 ...

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

America, América is the by turns woeful, despairing and ironic tale of the USA’s sustained attempts to turn its southern ...

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

The money part is solid golden age. And, of course, now utterly vanished. Carter is from Ottawa, a sensible capital city of ...

Philippe Sands is a barrister and academic who represented Human Rights Watch when the Pinochet case was considered by the Law Lords. He recounts the case and ties it to the story of Walther Rauff, an ...

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 ...