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BarcelonaAntoni Segura Mas (Barcelona, ​​1952) dared to embody in the book the history of his generation, the generation born after the Second World War

Foreign correspondent Hella Pick, who has died at the age of 94, was at the heart of virtually every major diplomatic event since the early 1960s. She was utterly formidable in her determination to get the story. Her range of contacts was extraordinary and her knowledge encyclopaedic. Well into her nineties she was writing elegant longform pieces for Prospect, including this article drawing sobering parallels between the war she fled as a Kindertransport child in 1939 and the rise of Putin. She ...

It's like a game of spot the difference, but instead of looking for discrepancies between two almost identical pictures, it's about identifying similarities in disparate images. But they're so richly detailed it's always possible to find they have something in common. This game is especially popular in wartime.

Pollini was one of the most important pianists and artistic personalities of the second half of the 20th century and the early 21st century.

For their politics they were put in prison. Some died, some were released, and some are still there. But when others looked out from the same prison bars and saw mud, they saw stars. From a Korean dissident to a nuclear scientist, via Vaclav Havel, we look at some of the world's most famous political prisoners.

An odyssey through America’s oddball east, a murderous life story told backwards, and the return of an Ealing caper. What are you watching this Easter?

In December, Sofia decided to partially dismantle its monument to the Red Army, rekindling decades-old debates about where these pieces of Soviet history belong, writes Juliet Jacques.

Aaron Bushnell killed himself outside the Israeli embassy in Washington shouting "Free Palestine". He declared he would no longer be "complicit in [the Israeli] genocide [in Gaza]". Here's a brief history of self-immolation as a tool of protest.

OUR Icon this week was a Communist, back in the days when that seemed very slightly less mental than it does now and when the Left was about class…