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In countries that have emerged from brutal 20th-century dictatorships, the past isn’t staying in the past.

Royal bodies, royal traitors

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.

Finding escapism and insight in two novels and Masha Gessen’s new essay.

Criminal cases against former leaders can be a positive sign about a country’s institutions. But of course politics often plays a role as well.

Tales of status, those who have it and those who want it, are on my list.

A comic novel from the 1930s opens a window on days when what would become a dangerous political movement was seen as a silly hobby.

A look at women who inspired great art and literature and what might have been.

A conversation with Nick Bostrom, a philosopher at Oxford, who has spent decades preparing for the day artificial intelligence is capable of anything the human brain can do.