Uncovering Russia’s dark soul
The country’s vast woods have been overlooked in our understanding of its violent history
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Life and fate in Kolkata
In a novel set in a dystopian Bengal, scarcity and climate exile have stripped the characters of their decency –…
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The writer who fought the Mafia
Crime writer Leonardo Sciascia launched a political career to take on the Mafia and try to heal the malignant forces…
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Rupert Murdoch’s family blood sport
A new exposé reveals how he governed his family, his business and the world, unable to tell them apart
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Was this French cowboy the first fascist?
The eccentric life of Marquis de Morès, anti-Semitic rabble-rouser
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The moral grammar of Daniyal Mueenuddin’s Pakistan
This Is Where the Serpent Lives depicts a world shaped by non-Western values
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Julian Barnes departs on his own terms
Departure(s) is the novelist’s moving and inventive final book
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Islam is the engine of world history
The religion may have transformed every corner of the globe, but it was also radically changed in the process
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