The lesson of Liu Xiaobo
Eight years into his 11-year prison term, Liu Xiaobo, China’s only Nobel Peace Prize winner, is dying. He is the…
The ruin of a ruin
In the welter of Syrian bloodshed, why should we remember the death of a single man? Because he was the…
Whisper who dares
Stand aside, Homer. I doubt whether even the author of the Iliad could have matched Alexis Peri’s account of the…
A girl in a million
All readers know that good novels draw us into other worlds. I cannot think of another, however, which so alarmed…
Untold tales of Tibet
On the night of 17 March 1959, the 14th Dalai Lama, aged 23, slipped out of the Norbulinka, his summer…
