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Fans of Soviet history and/or the 2017 comedy film, The Death of Stalin, will remember Levrentiy Pavlovich Beria as the ruthless would-be successor to a certain General Secretary left lying on the floor in a puddle of his own urine following a stroke because, as historian Simon Sebag Montefiore puts…

Discover interesting facts about where the Tasmanian tiger lived, what it ate, why and when it went extinct, and whether we could ever bring one back.

France commemorates on Sunday the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Paris from German Nazi occupation, nine months before the end of World War II. RFI looks at what's being remembered and how.

Like most mathematicians, I hear confessions from complete strangers: the inevitable “I was always bad at math.” I suppress the response, “You are forgiven, my child.”

‘The day-old croissants are sturdier than fresh ones, making them the perfect bake’

With her second novel Bear, Julia Phillips consolidates her position as a leading novelist of the cartographic margins.

Eighty years ago, an exciting new poet was published in the modernist literary journal Angry Penguins. Of course, we all know now that Ern Malley was a hoax, so it can be easy to overlook just how blindsided Max Harris, Angry Penguins’ precocious young editor, must have been.

It is a truth generally acknowledged that authors and publishers want their books to become bestsellers. Bestseller lists, especially those published in prestigious media outlets, such the New York Times, or publishing industry magazines are important marketing tools for publishers, and useful selection tools for booksellers, librarians and readers.

For decades, winning an Olympic medal has been described as the Holy Grail of sports.