Библиотека имени Кальдера

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...

Daniel Kalder  is the author of two of my favorite books of the 21st Century:  Lost Cosmonaut: Observations of an Anti-Tourist  and  Stran...

I  Soul It is well-known that when Lenin died in 1924 his brain was extracted from his skull and subsequently dissected by Soviet sc...

On a recent visit to Istanbul I stayed in an apartment looking out on the Bosphorus. Every morning I’d get up and see the sun sparkling on...

Life is not easy for the offspring of dictators. Look at Gaddafi’s kids, who are either dead, in prison or in exile. Bashar al-Assad would ...