Reading and Writing

"When we read a text, we hear a voice talking to us. Yet the voice changes over time. When we read a novel written today, we hear a voi...

"In WWII, agents of the British secret service unit MI9 oversaw the development and distribution of special-edition versions of the boa...

"From propaganda catapults to exploding seashells, why do "intelligence" services come up with so many bad, and often absurd,...

"In order to introduce our literature to the world, we should first set our ideology, since nothing can change world beliefs as literat...

On this day in 1945 the Nazis began to evacuate the Auschwitz concentration camp, ten days later liberated by the advancing Soviet troops. L...

Gone are the days of writers such as Romain Rolland , the lonely voices of reason, who stood against wars, lies, and slavery of thought. Thi...

"An MI6 agent became a serial killer as he used pretty young women to lure Russians to their deaths with the promise of sex [...] A Cos...

"To his handlers in the Security Service, MI5, he was code-named Snow, while to his masters in German intelligence he was Johnny. Arthu...

"Historians still argue why [ Kim] Philby, a British aristocrat and a graduate of the Cambridge University, suddenly chose to work for ...

"Born in Columbus, Georgia, in 1894, Eugene Jacques Bullard stowed away to Europe as a teenager, earning money as a prizefighter and in...

"Mark Zborowski was the most notorious and deadly agent of the Soviet secret police (the GPU) inside the Trotskyist movement in the 193...

"The Savoy of this period, like London's other grand hotels, was a locus of powerful resentment: a building that symbolised the ten...

"For two weeks in October 1969, the Nixon Administration secretly placed U.S. nuclear forces on alert.  [...] Still today, no conclusiv...

Just read Soldiers' Revolt , by Hans Hellmut Kirst , a fictionalised account of the plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler, and the implement...

"Surely the most eccentric unsung spy was Maxwell Knight, known to his friends as Max or M. Although he did later become well known, it...

"The former first lady of Argentina has been accused of accepting Nazi treasures stolen from wealthy families during the Holocaust in r...

Worried about the state of the economy? You're not the only one. Others worried before you, and they had a plan... Here's a piece th...

"There is fiction, and there is history. Certain critics of no discernment have considered that fiction is history which might have tak...

"One of Britain's most-decorated female spies was initially dismissed as "scatterbrained" and "not very intelligent...

"The precious metals markets have tremendous potential for investors. But they are also wrapped up in great mystery -- deliberately so....