Before the Taliban
Reporting from the frontlines of the mujahideen war against the Soviet Union.
Reviews
East Meets West
The historical currents that have shaped modern Central Asia.
Missions and Misunderstandings
A tale of two translators, caught between civilisations.
Absolute Legend
Hunting in the archives for the ‘real’ Robin Hood.
‘I Embrace You With All My Revolutionary Fervor: Letters 1947-1967’ by Che Guevara review
I Embrace You With All My Revolutionary Fervor: Letters 1947-1967 by Che Guevara collects the deft epistolary prose of the self-styled prophet.
Half a Life
The remarkable adolescence of the Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen.
Escape to the Country
An Essex farm built on religious and political ideals in a war-torn world.
‘Traitor King’ by Andrew Lownie review
From gay orgies to Nazi sympathies, Traitor King: The Scandalous Exile of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor by Andrew Lownie picks up the story post-Abdication.
Y Byd Newydd
From Ohio’s farmlands to Pennsylvania’s coalfields: how Welsh is America?
Can’t Go On
Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, had aimed to bring new life to a system in which he believed until the last.