Kamila Shamsie’s Best of Friends reveals the complexities of female relationships
The author’s portrait of two women growing up in 1980s Karachi exposes the contempt that can often lie beneath love.
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The author’s portrait of two women growing up in 1980s Karachi exposes the contempt that can often lie beneath love.
By Lucy Hughes-HallettThe German people were seduced by Hitler’s message of glorious blood sacrifice – right up until it needed to…
By Lucy Hughes-HallettThe word “appeasement” smells a bit off nowadays. There’s a tang of cowardice about it, a whiff of turpitude.…
By Lucy Hughes-HallettChristopher Clark’s new book explores how Germany’s leaders learnt to bend the past to suit the present. Today’s politics…
By Lucy Hughes-HallettThe events behind the short-lived writers’ revolution in Germany in 1918.
By Lucy Hughes-HallettFake news, disinformation, propaganda – call it what you will – the dissemination of untruths and half-truths is part of…
By Lucy Hughes-HallettThe women of Rome’s imperial family matched the men for ruthlessness, but their reward was ingratitude rather than power.
By Lucy Hughes-HallettThe remarkable story of how John Law transformed the French economy after establishing a national bank.
By Lucy Hughes-HallettDaniel Kalder investigates why dictators have aspired to be, as Stalin put it, “engineers of souls”, and – in pursuit of…
By Lucy Hughes-Hallett