March 2021 Issue Donald Rayfield The Lesser Evil? Journey into the Land of the Zeks and Back: A Memoir of the Gulag By Julius Margolin (Translated from Russian by Stefani Hoffman) LR
December 1998 Issue Anne Applebaum They Did a Good Job Lenin's Embalmers By Ilya Zbarsky and Samuel Hutchinson LR
November 2017 Issue Michael Goldfarb Family Fortunes Mischka’s War: A Story of Survival from War-Torn Europe to New York By Sheila Fitzpatrick What You Did Not Tell: A Russian Past and the Journey Home By Mark Mazower
September 1998 Issue Anne Applebaum Miraculous Survival Man Is Wolf to Man: Surviving Stalin's Gulag By Janusz Bardach and Kathleen Gleeson LR
February 2017 Issue Donald Rayfield One Shift in the Life of… The Diary of a Gulag Prison Guard By Ivan Chistyakov (Translated by Arch Tait) LR
May 2016 Issue Catherine Brown From Odessa to Paris Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea By Teffi (Translated by Robert Chandler, Elizabeth Chandler, Anne Marie Jackson & Irina Steinberg) Rasputin and Other Ironies By Teffi (Translated by Robert Chandler, Elizabeth Chandler, Rose France & Anne Marie Jackson)
August 2003 Issue Anna Reid Princess of the Caspian The Taste of Dreams: An Obsession with Russia and Caviar By Vanor Bennett LR
May 2008 Issue Nigel Jones Behind the Wire Under Two Dictators: Prisoner of Stalin and Hitler By Margarete Buber-Neumann LR
June 2008 Issue Donald Rayfield From Russia with Love Stalin’s Children: Three Generations of Love and Betrayal By Owen Matthews LR
April 2008 Issue Phillip Knightley The Socialist at Centre-Half Comrade Jim: The Spy Who Played for Spartak By Jim Riordan LR
November 2007 Issue John Sweeney Atrocity Uncut One Soldier’s War in Chechnya By Arkady Babchenko (Translated by Nick Allen) LR
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Nick Harkaway, John le Carré's son, has gone back to the 1960s with a new novel featuring his father's anti-hero, George Smiley.
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