When you think of Washington, DC, the city’s literary scene does not immediately spring to mind. “The federal government ...

With a few notable exceptions, American presidents nurtured a lifetime habit of sustained character-building reading.

Over three decades before the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the CIA funnelled 10m books into the eastern bloc, including George Orwell’s “1984”, John le Carré’s spy thrillers and Virginia Woolf’s ...

China’s New Barges Could Make a Tough Task Easier: Invading Taiwan ...