It's a strange way to tell a story. Daniel Stein: Interpreter is a patchwork of letters, diaries, official notes, reports and recorded speeches that seem to both hide and explore the extraordinary ...

The Story. Gulian Eyre, 35, handsome, attractive, returns to Manhat-tan, bringing with him Vannya—Major Ivan Polienoff, Russian artist. Gulian has served in the War, has tried to write poetry in Paris ...

Renowned Arabist Leslie McLoughlin has been an interpreter at Buckingham Palace, Downing Street and served as a language consultant in the Netherlands (during the Lockerbie trial). He has also taught ...

This family memoir covers a lot of ground, going back more than 1,000 years to trace the author's ancestor and ending with the Japanese Occupation of Singapore. It also offers a lot of historical ...

An encounter with any literary work by Prof Wole Soyinka easily provokes scholarly or intellectual curiosity. This is because as a literary giant of no mean stature, Soyinka occupies a revered space ...

The fruits of a free-ranging reading week were a fascinating book on China and a political science paper that explains a quirk of far-right politics. By Amanda Taub Some weeks, as I try to chase down ...