Ben Macintyre

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Politics

Great Sakharov’s Ghost By seeking to destroy Alexei Navalny, Putin is repeating the mistakes his K.G.B. predecessors made with the dissident nuclear scientist

By Ben Macintyre
February 20, 2021
Obituaries

A Friend Among Spies For 60 years, real-life spy turned author John le Carré wrote elegant best-sellers that used the world of espionage to expose the complexities of human nature

By Ben Macintyre
December 19, 2020
Books

The Game Is Afoot Netflix and the estate of Arthur Conan Doyle are butting heads over Sherlock Holmes’s true identity

By Ben Macintyre
November 28, 2020
Crime and Scandal

The Making of a Madam Growing up, Ghislaine Maxwell was envied, admired, and teased, but what made her conspire with Jeffrey Epstein for decades?

By Ben Macintyre
July 11, 2020
Modern Times

Lessons of the Spanish Flu What can we learn from the 20th century’s deadliest virus outbreak?

By Ben Macintyre
March 14, 2020
Crime and Scandal

Have a Seat! The naughty French love chair designed for Edward VII to facilitate a threesome

By Ben Macintyre
February 22, 2020
Modern Times

Putin on the Ritz To understand Russia’s leader, go back to Stalin

By Ben Macintyre
January 25, 2020
Film and Television

All Fact-Checked on the Western Front How much in Sam Mendes’s film 1917 is actually true?

By Ben Macintyre
January 11, 2020
Culture

Boris-Ripper Britain’s new prime minister wrote a comic novel with racy language and racial slights

By Ben Macintyre
August 3, 2019