“The Gulag Archipelago,” an account of the Soviet Union’s system of labor camps that is at once beautiful and horrifying; “The Oak and the Calf,” an often very funny memoir of ...

Despite the pain in my body, my spirit was upheld by a sense of serenity and joy”: the lost prison memoir of a Romanian ...

The 16th edition of the film festival takes place from April 14-19 at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art and the Tel Aviv Cinematheque.

How many died? There is no accurate answer. Applebaum “reluctantly” gives a figure of 2,749,163, although it is probably an ...

I remember reading Solzhenitsyn, the Gulag Archipelago, I think ... experienced it and that’s what I found so moving about the books. So, I suppose I’ll be delighted if audiences have that ...

In a very technologically driven era, students have found that reading helps them achieve personal development and mental wellbeing. They discuss how books can be a tool for self-discovery as well as ...

At a certain point when reading Khalifa’s book, one is struck by the question: Given how cheap life is in these prisons, why does al-Assad even bother taking prisoners? There are, right now, no fewer ...