Simon Sebag Montefiore
Moscow Rolls Out the Red Carpet
The Assads haven’t just lost control of Syria, they’ve killed the Russian dream of a foothold in the Middle East. Now exiled in Moscow, they face a life of irrelevance and being ignored by Putin
Looter in Chief
How did a nearly 20-year-old, widely acclaimed biography of Catherine the Great and Potemkin become a maniacal road map for President Putin?
Jackie’s Russian Collusion
A letter from Jacqueline Kennedy to Nikita Khrushchev was among the last she’d send from the White House
A Room of Their Own
A 1920s note from Vita to Virginia is an exercise in reassuring a lover
Eternity’s Gate
The love letter that made it out of Auschwitz intact
