Regular listeners may remember that last year Will interviewed the wonderful documentarian, podcaster and YouTuber Andrew ...

At a time when Donald Trump threatens to annex Greenland and the Panama Canal, China is flexing its military and economic ...

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Eva, the protagonist of Clare Sestanovich’s debut novel, is a young woman struggling to find her place in the world. Over an ...

Richard Price’s tenth novel follows four characters in the wake of a tenement building collapse in Harlem that kills six ...

Natalia Ginzburg, then an editor at the Italian publishing house Einaudi, received an 800-page brick of a manuscript from an ...

With Christmas only just gone, I hope it’s not too late to recommend Ingvild Rishoi’s bittersweet seasonal novella – a ...

Versailles was a palace of science, as Anna Ferrari shows in this stimulating and innovative study, accompanying a dazzling ...

At an improbable soirée in 1987, Mike Tyson was making aggressive sexual advances to the young model Naomi Campbell when the ...

We don’t want a James Bond adventure here,’ warns a jumpy spymaster as he grapples with an anti-state conspiracy in Oromay.

Alexander Pushkin was brought to ruin by his letters more than once. When the Russian postal police intercepted a letter ...