Uncompromising: Ludwig Hohl

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@blog.yalebooks.com | 2 years ago

Idi Amin and the Uses of Political Buffoonery

Mark Leopold— From the beginning of my research into the life of the notorious Ugandan dictator, Idi Amin, I noticed the frequency with which contemporary commentators (especially but not only Brit… | Continue reading


@blog.yalebooks.com | 3 years ago

The Lost Last Supper

Cees Nooteboom— When you hear the word inquisition, you think of Spain, heretics in strange tall pointed hats, the stake, forced confessions, horrifying images that make the words Holy Inquisition … | Continue reading


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Charles Darwin, Tortoise Hunter?

Elizabeth Hennessy— On a sunny day in October 1835, a twenty-six-year-old Charles Darwin hiked from the parched coast of Santiago Island in the Galápagos archipelago to the island’s green, damp hig… | Continue reading


@blog.yalebooks.com | 4 years ago