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Will Robert Caro’s biography of LBJ ever be finished?

3 August 2019 9:00 am

Robert Caro, at the age of 83, continues to work full-time on his grand inquiry into the nature of political…

Female Nazi supporters greet Hitler after his election as chancellor in 1933. Credit: Getty Images

Swept away by Hitler’s charisma: German women gush over the Führer

23 June 2018 9:00 am

The distinguished historian Konrad Jarausch’s new book is a German narrative, told through the stories of ordinary people who lived…

Ethnic cleansing and the horrors of Buczacz

20 January 2018 9:00 am

I thought I knew the history of the years 1914 to 1945: the first world war and the terrible casualties…

The influence of the sun, moon and stars on reading the signs of the Kabbalah

The appeal of mysticism

1 July 2017 9:00 am

This extraordinary book has two main characters: Gershom Scholem (1897–1982), an early Zionist and the founder of the modern study…

Look back in anger

21 January 2017 9:00 am

Pankaj Mishra’s Age of Anger wants to explain how we got to a world in ‘a pervasive panic… that anything…

Look back in anger

19 January 2017 3:00 pm

Pankaj Mishra’s Age of Anger wants to explain how we got to a world in ‘a pervasive panic… that anything…

Two little boys, one little toy

2 July 2016 9:00 am

Rose Tremain sets the true story of Police Captain Paul Grüninger, commander of the Swiss border force in Canton Saint…