Read Shah of Shahs

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

Kapuscinski's forty years reporting Africa, from Ghana's independence to Rwanda.

Kapuscinski's first assignments abroad with the first historian in his pocket.

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

Lawrence Wright on al-Qaeda and the road to 9/11; the Pulitzer.

Marjane Satrapi grows up through the Iranian revolution, in black and white.

A man who impersonated a film director is tried, with everyone playing themselves; Kiarostami's docu-fiction.

A man drives around Tehran looking for someone to bury him after his suicide; the Palme d'Or of 1997.