David McCloskey, whose Damascus Station was a brilliant debut, has followed it in quick succession with a Russian-based story ...

I was on the phone to a friend recently, who asked me what I was reviewing. ‘It’s a book by a lady intellectual,’ I began.

I suspect Adam LeBor and his publishers must have struggled to come up with the title The Last Days of Budapest: Spies, Nazis ...

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Is this what it felt like in the months before August 1914? Or during the years leading up to September 1939? The discussion ...

A commercial publisher bringing out a book of old academic essays on Austrian writers, some completely unknown to English ...

James Birch is a somewhat mysterious art dealer and curator, whose first great triumph was mounting a Francis Bacon ...

Sergei Prokofiev died of a brain haemorrhage on the sofa of his Moscow flat. He was 61, and had struggled for years with ill ...

This multitudinous chronicle is not the story of the folk music revival. Rather, it’s not only the story of the folk scene in ...

It’s odd being lionised for something you did so long ago you’d almost forgotten you were there. But this is what has been ...

It may only be halfway through January, but the two opposed branches of the younger royal family have both made their first ...

This year has commenced in an historic fashion for South Korea – albeit for all the wrong reasons. Earlier today, South ...