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The impact of recency bias on our perception of historical events and achievements
Tom Holland draws extensively on the great work by the father of history, Herodotus, whose The Histories is a searching, if often discursive, investigation into the roots and…
If Joe Biden had read Montaigne …
The work of the French Renaissance philosopher offers wisdom applicable to modern politics
Discovering the unread: Reflections on classic literature, beginning and endings
We ought to read them; we want to; we will. Next summer, or winter, when time indoors lends a circumstantial hand. Or next year. And so the pile grows, to be added to deathbed…
The devil gets the best lines
The battle between Satan and the forces of good has preoccupied writers for aeons
Will the real Don Quixote please stand up?
The seminal Spanish novel and its author are difficult to pin down in translation and history
There’s no murder in media wars
Alexei Navalny’s demise spotlights how death and displacement are portrayed in the media and in literature
Where is today’s Steinbeck?
This era in politics is crying out for a great chronicler in the mould of the American writer
Testaments well travelled
Scepticism has dogged stories of exploration from Ancient Greece through to Apollo XI