Will Robert Caro’s biography of LBJ ever be finished?
Robert Caro, at the age of 83, continues to work full-time on his grand inquiry into the nature of political…
Swept away by Hitler’s charisma: German women gush over the Führer
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
I thought I knew the history of the years 1914 to 1945: the first world war and the terrible casualties…
The appeal of mysticism
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
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
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
Rose Tremain sets the true story of Police Captain Paul Grüninger, commander of the Swiss border force in Canton Saint…
