Your Presence Is Mandatory” by Sasha Vasilyuk is based on a family secret harbored by the author’s grandfather.

From a longlist of 13, six novels have been shortlisted for the 2025 International Booker prize. Our academics review the ...

THE Ministry of Defence and National Service has proposed key amendments to the 1966 Pension and Gratuity Act, aiming to include provisions for veterans who fought during the Kagera War. Additionally, ...

Before becoming a pope, Montini spent 25 years as the Archbishop of Milan. The 1963 conclave didn't surprise anyone in Italy, ...

Kyle Books has signed The Repair Shop: World War Two, the new book from the BBC One television series that commemorates objects from the Second World War. Publisher Joanna Copestick acquired ...

There’s a long history of hate groups using new technologies to spread their message. In the 1930s, it was radio. In the 2010s, it was social media. In 2025, it ...

Against the backdrop of an escalating trade war between the US and China, Beijing has been testing the resolve of Taiwan and its allies. In April, the People's Liberation Army conducted live-fire ...

Ho is in my book the most likeable, the least horrific. The Declaration of Independence had inspired him. In Hanoi in 1995, on the 20 th-anniversary of the end of the war, I visited Ho’s ...

In his acknowledgements, Merry shares that the book’s provenance was a quote from British popular historian Paul Johnson, who wrote in 1997, “Only two states wanted a civil war—Massachusetts ...

Literary Critic Edmund Wilson. 67, returns to the more troubling questions of the Civil War in a book that at first glance hardly seems history. Omitting the usual battle data, he threads together ...

War has been on people’s minds lately. The obvious reason is Anzac Day, when the nation marks the sacrifices of those killed in battle. Speeches, books, and other reminders highlight the pros and cons ...