The betrayals of lü bu

All aspects of China’s President Xi Jinping’s young home life were dictated by his father’s expectations

When Tipu Sultan resisted Britain’s colonial expansion, he was painted as a bogeyman and, after he fell, his kingdom was looted with shocking rapacity, but his legacy has long awed the British–not least William Blake and John Keats, as Lucien de Guise discovers

July’s magazine featured a review of Max Hastings’s book Sword: D-Day Trial by Battle, alongside an iconic photograph of British troops. That image has featured so many times in articles and TV shows

Jimmy Carter’s abrasive foreign policy adviser and rival to Henry Kissinger

“Hands of Saint Dominic” by Albrecht Dürer, 1506; ...

In March 2018, the attention of the United States Senate was briefly drawn to one of the more unusual topics a political body might discuss: reincarnation, the belief that a soul that leaves one body