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Forget James Bond. George Minden was the real thing. A Romanian aristocrat by birth, he could have spent his days in manor ...
He wrote more than 30 novels, including an acclaimed series about Russian detective Arkady Renko. The first volume, "Gorky Park," was made into a 1983 film.
In an account that reads more like a spy thriller than a political history, British author Charlie English recounts the story ...
Joseph Finder, who writes frequently about Russia, is the author of 17 novels including, most recently, “The Oligarch’s ...
Gary Shteyngart's 'Vera, or Faith,' and a painstakingly researched history of the atomic bombs dropped on Japan at the end of ...
In the aftermath of the Second World War, as the Soviet Union imposed ideological control across Eastern Europe, the CIA ...
The source material is full of anti-totalitarian and patriotic themes, but the film adaptation missed the chance to make a statement for our moment.
We've all seen the Instagram version of camping, the one with the perfectly filtered sunsets, the artfully arranged campfire, ...
As Tim Bouverie shows in his masterful new diplomatic history of the war, the prime minister was right, both in his ...
Miss Macao, a Consolidated Model 28 Catalina seaplane, crashed into the sea during a scheduled flight to Hong Kong. There was only one survivor, but his story didn’t add up.
Peter will be alone when he makes his next appearance in Spider-Man: Brand New Day and crosses paths with a deranged hero, ...
Disillusioned by the empty promises of Marxist ideology, he emigrated to the United States—a move that marked not an end, but ...