Review: The Romanov Sisters
The extent to which readers will enjoy Helen Rappaport’s The Romanov Sisters will most likely depend on one or two important factors. First, it will help if you haven’t spent m
Review: The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle Over a Forbidden Book
Nadezhda Mandelstam, widow of the Russian poet Osip Mandelstam, once noted a “remarkable feature” common to Soviet leaders: “their boundless, almost superstitious respect for
Review: Foligatto by Nicolas de Crécy and Alexios Tjoyas
There are not many comics which feature bloated, castrated opera singers as the lead character. In fact, it’s quite possible that there’s only one: Foligatto, by writer Alexios
Dictator Lit: The Poetry of Ayatollah Khomeini
Perhaps the most famous literary critic of the 20th century, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (1902-1989) was renowned for his vehement loathing of the work of Salman Rushdie. Indeed, t
Digitising Stalin
BBC Radio 4/BBC World Service (Daniel as Presenter) For Stalin, privacy was key. So how would he feel about his secrets being revealed? The Stalin Digital Archive is the resu