Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. “My dear, let me repeat — we are in Paris, thanks be to the October Revolution, and all that twaddle has been ...

Days in the Caucasus, the autobiography of her childhood, written in French and published in her adopted country France in 1945, concerns itself with the personal earthquakes as much as the political.

When Umm El-Banu Assadullayeva, later called Banine, was just 12 years old, she became a multimillionaire. But “only for a few days,” she wryly recalls, “for I was soon woken at dawn by ‘The ...

Memoir is, perhaps, the most poignantly perishable of literary genres. For every copy of the Memoirs of Duc de Saint-Simon, scores of autobiographies moulder unread in second-hand bookshops. Yet every ...

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