City of Memories and Regrets
The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk, translated by Maureen Freely
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
A Reader’s Guide to Thatcherism
As anti-Thatcher literature blossomed in the 1980s, it was tempting to argue that the Right had won the economic war and the Left had won the cultural war. But the real victors of the past 30 years
Siberia: In Search of the Gulag
‘When I finally reached Magadan, I hunted for days for a survivor. "I'm sorry, they are all dead," was the refrain. With male life-expectancy in Russia a mere 58, I should not
An End to the Myth of the Tortured Soul
What was Van Gogh really like? A new exhibition brings us closer to the truth In a career lasting no more than ten years, Vincent Van Gogh produced about 900 paintings and 1,100