On the face of it, the gritty comic-book blockbuster “Joker,” the hit female-led crime drama “Hustlers,” the darkly comic Korean-language thriller “Parasite” and the upcoming Agatha Christie…

Holslag claims that China poses a mortal economic threat to Europe and the West. The topic is timely, since the EUis currently considering following…

At 97 years old, John B Goodenough is the oldest laureate to receive a Nobel prize in any discipline. "Live to 97 (years old) and you can do anything," Goodenough said in a…

As I arrived at the press preview for Tate Britain’s new exhibition, I saw the glass cabinets containing the familiar pages of William Blake’s etchings, with their slightly over-neat handwriting and…

The latter years of the 1960s proved to be a fruitful time for The Beatles, although they had quit doing live concerts in 1966 it was during that time period in which they produced their most…

This collaboration by the three U.S. government officials who led the fight in the United States against the financial crisis of 2008 presents a mature and…

* “I have thought of taking away publishing rights from AUC, and I even filed three lawsuits against the institution.” *” My father tried teaching me and my sister story writing while we were…

The Human Tide: How Population Shaped theModern World.Paul Morland. PublicAffairs, 2019. 352pp. Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline.Darrell BrickerandJohn Ibbitson. Crown, 2019…

Dancing Bears: True Stories of People Nostalgic for Life Under Tyranny.Witold Szablowski.Penguin Books, 2018. 256pp.Welcome to the Wild East. First, there are Bulgarian Gypsies with dancing bears…

In this engaging book, Straumann, a leading Swiss economic historian, examines a critical factor in Adolf Hitler’s rise to power. In the last days of the Weimar Republic,…