The Russian writer Danil Granin used the word 'tosca' to describe the villages outside Novgorod, writes Rachel Polonsky. Russian...

In this fast-paced, lively and hugely enjoyable book, Mark Garnett (a politics lecturer somewhere or other), takes the reader on a rollic...

As readers of this blog will be aware, over the years, I have read about and reflected often on the Shoah , the Holocaust of the European...

I picked up this DVD for a quid, in a sale of old LoveFilm stock. In the days before Netflix and downloading was a thing, postal DVD serv...

It is sixty-eight years since the UN Declaration of Universal Human Rights was signed.  The lofty aspirations contained in that docum...

Vishal Mangalwadi’s “The Book That Made Your World”, is by any measure an extraordinary read.   Growing up in the Indian city of Alla...

  Janice G. Raymond’s book, “Not a Choice, Not a Job: Exposing the Myths About Prostitution and the Global Sex Trade”, describes a spect...

Bryan Burrough's "Days of Rage" tells the stories of the radical terrorist groups which emerged from the tumult of the 1960...

Sometimes it's great to read a really thought-provoking book and Meic Pearse's "Why The Rest Hates The West" certainly ...

What could be a more relevant book for 2017 than one examining the phenomenon of post-truth. Claims that we have moved in our society int...

There are several things which can make reading a biography a disappointing experience. The first is that despite the historic events sur...

Having been deeply impressed by Dalrymple's "From the Holy Mountain" , I was delighted to see his epic, "The Return of...

Men think they think upon the great political questions, and they do; but they think with their party, not independently; they read its lit...

In 2012, Margarethe von Trotta embarked on a project to make a film about the political theorist Hannah Arendt, specifically focusing on he...

Phillippe Aractingi's 2007 film Under the Bombs (French: Sous les bombes, Arabic: تحت القصف; taht alqasf‎‎), is a deep lament for civi...