A new book by historian Ben Macintyre chronicles the defection of a KGB officer and his relationship with an MI6 handler during the turbulence of Iran's revolution, according to a review published by The Guardian.
Critic says the novelist's new cold war-era paranormal epic, two decades in the making, marks a shift from genre fiction toward literary heavyweights like Bolaño and Cărtărescu
The Guardian's review examines Barry's new novel, which follows a formerly enslaved narrator in post-civil war America and continues themes from his earlier work 'Days Without End.'
Graham Farmelo's book portrays Stephen Hawking as both a brilliant physicist and a flawed figure whose behavior was often overlooked because of his disability, according to a Guardian review.