Siberia’s Surprising Musical History
How educated exiles transformed Irkutsk into ‘the Paris of Siberia’.
Reviews
A Strange Pantheon
The interface between politics and war, rather than military strategy and tactics.
The Devil by the Deep Blue Sea
The allure of the sun-burnished boulevards of Marseille remains intact.
Who’s the Purest of them All?
The religious politics that reshaped 17th-century England and Scotland and propelled many towards transatlantic migration.
The Magic is Gone
Were humanist free-thinkers the engineers of magic’s decline?
Ralegh in his Time
A courtier of refined sensibility and an adventurer of bold and boundless ambition.
Politics and Poetry
A bridge between India and Persia.
The Stylus is Mightier than the Sword
Looking beyond cuneiform signs to the people who impressed them.
Spain in the USA
Why the US shuns its Spanish heritage.
The Scholar’s Tale
What links Tolkien and Chaucer?