Monthly Archives: January 2011

Simon Sebag Montefiore HELL FROZEN OVER Gulag Boss: A Soviet Memoir By Fyodor Vasilevich Mochulsky (Translated and edited by Deborah Kaple) (Oxford University Press 272pp £17) Mochulsky (right) In 1940, a 22-year-old Soviet engineer named Fyodor Mochulsky finished his studies … Continue reading →

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Over on his blog the BBC’s chief political correspondent Nick Robinson posts a revealing PS about Blair’s second appearance before the Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq war. What is emerging before our eyes is a clash of cultures between a … Continue reading →

Kate Briggs’s wonderful translation finally makes available in English a most unusual book by one of the most significant literary figures of the twentieth century. The Preparation of the Novel comprises the notes of the third and last lecture course … Continue reading →

“Don is very conscious of the existence of this “old black book,” as he calls it. He’s sure it’s full of criticism of him. I tell him, well, when I die, all he has to do is burn it.” Don … Continue reading →

This year marks the 150th anniversary of the outbreak of the American Civil War, the commemoration of which provides an opportunity to look back on that great tragedy and retrace the conflict. Both the Washington Post and the New York … Continue reading →

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