Oleg Antonovich Gordievsky was born in Moscow on October 10 1938. His father, an agent with the NKVD, the KGB’s forerunner, had survived Joseph Stalin’s Great Terror, a wave of mass arrests and ...

While climbing the ranks of the Soviet spy agency, he spent more than a decade working for British intelligence as one of its ...

For more than a decade, as Cold War tensions threatened to escalate into all-out war, Mr. Gordievsky, a senior KGB officer, ...

Her book does two things, one badly ... This is not the place, for instance, to discover anything new about Alexander Litvinenko, murdered with polonium-laced tea in November 2006 by two Russian state ...

whether it was attempting to murder Sergei Skripal or killing Alexander Litvinenko or any of these other acts that we’ve found out about. There was always a degree of deniability, whether ...

The classic romance explored in Before Sunrise and Before Sunset are obvious touchstones here, but Liam Calvert's directorial ...

Our critic on the month’s best releases. By Alida Becker A new book collects the Paper Magazine co-founder Kim Hastreiter’s most treasured belongings, and friends. By Tas Tobey In “The M ...

Liverpool are ready to offer Mohamed Salah what he wants after getting Trent Alexander-Arnold's wages off the books, it has been claimed. Both men are out of contract in the summer, with Alexander ...

It’s a good month for criticism in the literary world, with new books in April exploring everything from early-’00s feminism to modern TV and video games. On the fiction side, there’s a new ...

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander continues to make his case for his first NBA MVP in the 2024-25 campaign. Joining a couple of all-time greats in the NBA history books will certainly help his case.