Read Conversation in the Cathedral

The last day of Trujillo, the Dominican dictator, and a woman who returns; Vargas Llosa.

A poet returns to Kars in a blizzard as girls kill themselves over headscarves; Pamuk's political novel.

Experience the dystopian classic by George Orwell

The pigs take over the farm; all animals are equal, but some more than others.

A Muslim party wins the French presidency in 2022; Houellebecq published it the day of Charlie Hebdo.

Haile Selassie's court told by its servants; Kapuscinski on power anywhere.

Russians remember the end of the Soviet Union and the 1990s; Alexievich's chorus.

Solzhenitsyn's literary investigation of the camps from 227 witnesses; the abridged edition is enough.