It may be thought that the notorious Cambridge spies – the majority of them members of the Apostles, that university’s secretive, elitist society – had been written out. But, as Stalin’s Apostles ...
'GRIM IS THE lot of the Russian poet: / an inscrutable fate / leads Pushkin to the pistol's barrel, / Dostoevsky to the scaffold', wrote the poet and magus Max Voloshin in 1922 after he witnessed the ...
A Life by Sara Wheeler ...
Friends Disunited - Lonely Crowds by Stephanie Wambugu ...
The defining sequence of postwar British cinema might be Barbara Windsor’s bra pinging off during a callisthenics workout on a dreary campsite. For French film, it’s probably Alain Delon consuming a ...
A Story of Power, Conflict and Couture by Justine Picardie; Dressing the Queen: Two Hundred Years of Makers and Monarchy by ...
Franz Kafka has long been emblematic of the 20th century. Appropriated and enlisted by existentialists, theologians and psychoanalysts alike, he is somewhere between witness and patron saint. Without ...
The most familiar image in the West of the Japanese general Tojo Hideki (1884–1948) is that of a bloodstained patient, surrounded by medical staff trying to save his life after a suicide attempt in ...
The classicist Curtis Dozier has been documenting white nationalists’ strange obsession with Graeco-Roman antiquity on the website Pharos since 2017. There is an abundance of evidence. During the ...
Philosophy in the Age of Airplanes by Anthony Gottlieb; I Think of You Constantly with Love: The Letters of Ludwig ...
Following a chance conversation with a stranger in a London television studio in 2023, Radden Keefe picks up the unsolved ...
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