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The fate of the Amber Room is one of the abiding mysteries of the 20th Century. We have many photographs of the magnificent creation - a room in the Tsars palace at Tsarskoe Selo panelled in huge sheets of beautiful, glossy amber - and we know that...

Despite the fact that our lives are powered by electricity to an astonishing degree, most of us have little or no understanding of how or why it works. Instead, we rely on a blurry notion that it flows--like water--through wires to turn on...

The last ordeal of Nathan Zuckerman, the indomitable literary adventurer of Roths nine Zuckerman books, like Rip Van Winkle returning to his hometown to find that all has changed, Nathan Zuckerman comes back to New York, the city he left eleven...

In the first years of Kenyan independence, three young women return to the East African highlands where they shared a carefree childhood. Hannah is struggling to preserve her heritage at Langani Farm, where a series of unexplained and violent...

n his extraordinary novella Earth and Ashes (now a feature film), Atiq Rahimi distilled all the suffering of the Afghan people into the heart-breaking story of a grandfather seeking revenge for his daughters death. In his new novel, he once again...

A delightful and informative addition to the capitals literary legacy...I Never Knew that about London will not fail to enhance months, even years, of gentle urban exploration...Winns touch is always light, and his knowledge is never overbearing, so...

When Tiro, the confidential secretary of a Roman senator, opens the door to a terrified stranger on a cold November morning, he sets in motion a chain of events which will eventually propel his...