Algerian French writer Boualem Sansal, 75, has been sentenced to five years in an Algerian prison. He was arrested late last ...

When the personal becomes the political, it can have a devastating effect on those feeling the sharp end of such a vicious vendetta. Here, Thomas Harding looks at how Hitler conspired to hunt down and ...

My long-suffering ex, Michael Gove , used to refer to me sometimes as 'Mrs Blurt' for my unerring ability to say the wrong ...

The CIA Book Club’, by Charlie English, recounts the secret history of the CIA’s literary warfare programme during the Cold War ...