Ben Macintyre

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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

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

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

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

By Ben Macintyre

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

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

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

By Ben Macintyre