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 ...

How can a business that generates more losses than profits not only survive but thrive? Easily, as long as the losses fall on economic actors outside the company. It wouldn’t be good for the economy ...

Between 1933 and 1940, about a hundred thousand refugees from central Europe came to Britain to escape the nightmare of fascism. They were mostly from the professional middle class. The majority were ...

Shortly after the outbreak of the First World War, an Oxford book collector was angrily asked why he was not at the front, fighting for civilisation. ‘I am civilisation!’ he replied. I hope the ...

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

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 ...