Isabel Hilton
Articles by Isabel Hilton
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Books
Isabel Hilton: The book that changed my life
- 19 February 2009
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
Books
Chinese whisperer
- 16 October 2008
Bomb, Book and Compass: Joseph Needham and the Great Secrets of China Simon Winchester Viking, 336pp, £20
Books
Terror in the east
- 17 April 2008
The Bloody White Baron James Palmer Faber & Faber, 272pp, £18.99
Society
So farewell, Castro
- 21 February 2008
- 32 comments
As the Cuban leader steps down, Isabel Hilton assesses the legacy of the longest, most controversial presidency in the world and Stephanie Blankenburg looks at the future of the Cuban revolution
Politics
Still a messiah?
- 04 October 2007
- 44 comments
Forty years after his death, Che Guevara has little to offer as a guide for making revolution. So why does his image continue to inspire an almost religious following?
Books
Living on the edge
- 29 January 2007
The Writing on the Wall: China and the west in the 21st century Will Hutton Little, Brown, 448pp, £20 ISBN 0316730181
World Affairs
Away from home
- 08 May 2006
The Aquariums of Pyongyang: ten years in the North Korean Gulag Kang Chol-hwan and Pierre Rigoulot, translated by Yair Reiner Atlantic Books, 238pp, £8.99 ISBN 1843544997
