In first century A.D. Rome, during the reign of Vespasian, Marcus Didius Falco works as a private “informer,” often for the emperor, ferreting out hidden truths and bringing villains to ground. But even informers take vacations with their wives,...
Alexandrian Summer is the story of two Jewish families living their frenzied last days in the doomed cosmopolitan social whirl of Alexandria just before fleeing Egypt for Israel in 1951. The conventions of the Egyptian upper-middle class are laid...
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/10/21/alexei-navalny-patriot-memoir
Alexei Navalny’s Prison Diaries
The New Yorker · by Alexei Navalny · October 11, 2024
Personal History
The Russian opposition leader’s account of his last years and...
Evie is overjoyed when she is given her very own puppy, Alfie. But it's not long before another new member of the family arrives: Evie's baby brother, Sam. Suddenly no-one has much time to look after...