April 2019 Issue Robin Oakley The Ride of Her Life Unbreakable: The Woman Who Defied the Nazis in the World’s Most Dangerous Horse Race By Richard Askwith LR
October 2018 Issue John Tusa The Villa’s Tale The Last Palace: Europe’s Extraordinary Century Through Five Lives and One House in Prague By Norman Eisen LR
September 1995 Issue Roger Caldwell Misunderstood Artists Testaments Betrayed: An Essay in Nine Parts By Milan Kundera, Translated by Linda Asher LR
February 1997 Issue Ivan Klima Letter From Prague: Ivan Klima Describes how Pop Singers Threaten a Great Literary Tradition LR
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In the nine centuries since his death, El Cid has been presented as a prototypical crusader, a paragon of religious toleration and the progenitor of a united Spain.
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