Библиотека имени Кальдера

A few years ago I was at a wedding in Delaware when the father of the bride, on learning that I lived in Austin, asked whether Texans stil...

The dictators of the 20th century were firm believers in the power of the written word. Lenin had read the theories of Marx and the Russia...

  Daniel Kalder spent almost a decade reading the books of history's worst tyrants so that you wouldn't have to. Here he selects s...

Was there anything in Salazar’s writings that impressed/surprised you? I wouldn't say that anything "impressed" me, beyo...

There are a lot of very good, very long books out there:  Middlemarch, War and Peace, Don Quixote,  the Neapolitan Novels. And then there ar...

The 20th century’s most infamous dictators were also authors, often prolific ones, complementing the atrocities they visited on humanity wi...

So, I hear you’ve written another book. That’s right. It’s called  The Infernal Library  and it’s a study of dictator literature, that is...