Did an Englishman assist in the murder of Rasputin? Did a man knowns as the “Ace of Spies” almost carry off the assassination of the entire Bolshevik power structure? Did British agents really use semen as an invisible ink?
Giles Milton, author of Russian Roulette: How British Spies Thwarted Lenin's Plot for Global Revolution, has the answers.
Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the co-editor of Who’s Black and Why? A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race. More
Lewis H. Lapham talks with the author of Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely. More
Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity. More
Lewis Lapham talks with historian James Mather about a time when British foreign relations were more peaceful and diplomatic than they later became. More
Lewis Lapham talks with Ian Mortimer about the past millennium of human innovation. More
Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of Second Nature: Scenes from a World Remade. More