Paris is perhaps the greatest character in Balzac’s Human Comedy
Few people can be as familiar with the Paris of Balzac as Eric Hazan, both in its literary manifestation and its lamentably scarce surviving patches
Oliver-James Campbell
Sunday
Tuesday
Reinhard Heydrich and the bugged Berlin brothel
Kitty’s Salon is the only English-language book about the eponymous wartime Berlin brothel, which was rigged with microphones and surveillance equipment by the SS to capture the secrets of foreign ambassadors, political rivals and high-ranking government officials. Led by ‘the man with the iron heart’, Reinhard Heydrich, it is one of the last Nazi operations
Thursday
Was Thomas Edison guilty of murder?
The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures: A True Tale of Obsession, Murder and the Movies by Paul Fischer reviewed
Was Thomas Edison guilty of murder?
In September 1890 a Frenchman called Louis Le Prince left his brother in Dijon and boarded a train to Paris, with the intention of connecting to London and then to Leeds, before finally joining his wife Lizzie and family in New York. But the weeks turned into months, and to his wife’s astonishment and dismay