RAIL Columnist

‘Green sickness’, also known as the ‘disease of virgins’ – a diagnosis applied mainly to teenage girls from the 16th to the 19th centuries – is one of the most puzzling conditions in the history of me

Not since the era of Mao Zedong has ...

In a prisoner-of-war camp in western Ukraine, a former miner from the east is being interviewed about how he ended up fighting for Russia. His speech is slurred and one arm paralysed: the results not

Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz Berlin ShuffleTranslated by Philip Boehm256pp. Pushkin. £18.99. The exhumation of Alexander Boschwitz (1915–42) is one of the more pleasing literary stories of recent times.

Washington DC FBI raid: In a move ...