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The following is excerpted from Kent Carroll and Jodee Blanco's new novel, I, John Kennedy Toole, based on a true story of the making of A Confederacy of Dunces. Blanco is the author of two New York Times bestsellers and Carroll is the former editor-in-chief at Grove Press. He could…

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By RFE/RL May 11, 2020 PRAGUE -- Czech media have identified the man they say is the undercover Russian diplomat who entered the country nearly two months ago with a suitcase containing ricin as part of an alleged plot to poison as many as three Prague officials who had taken…

The current epidemic is bringing political tightening, economic downturn and social disruption, but it might also be an opportunity for radical change towards a more fair, democratic, and open Europe, says Timothy Garton Ash. The coronavirus crisis seems to be encouraging belief in radical change. An astonishing 71% of Europeans…

The current epidemic is bringing political tightening, economic downturn and social disruption, but it might also be an opportunity for radical change towards a more fair, democratic, and open Europe, says Timothy Garton Ash. The coronavirus crisis seems to be encouraging belief in radical change. An astonishing 71% of Europeans…

The current epidemic is bringing political tightening, economic downturn and social disruption, but it might also be an opportunity for radical change towards a more fair, democratic, and open Europe, says Timothy Garton Ash. The coronavirus crisis seems to be encouraging belief in radical change. An astonishing 71% of Europeans…

(CNN)The United States has scaled back its role on the world stage, taken actions that are undermining efforts to battle the coronavirus pandemic and left the international community without a traditional global leader, according to experts, diplomats and analysts.The US -- usually at the head of the table helping to…

Tyler Carrington’s​ micro-history Love at Last Sight opens like a work of true crime, with the unsolved case of Frieda Kliem, a 39-year-old seamstress murdered on 17 June 1914 in a forest on the outskirts of Berlin. The murderer was presumed to be a man she met through a personal…

A new book by historian Tim Cook looks at how World War II fits in Canada's historical imagination, and why it was vulnerable to neglect for so long It used to be easy to find a prime spot for watching the Remembrance Day ceremonies at Ottawa’s National War Memorial. Back…