Biography of Montesinos and analysis Vladimiro Ilyich Montesinos is not only the former de facto chief of the Peruvian...

Valery Gergiev was born in Moscow in 1953 to Ossetian parents. He spent his youth in the Caucasus. For a Russian career at a relatively old age, he learned to play the piano. At the...

The exhibition Klimt und die Frauen at the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere Vienna, Austria, until January 7, 2001. Catalogue, English edition Klimt’s Women: Amazon.com,...

Jim Lehrer had the honor to arbitrate the first presidential debate, televised by CNN. Lehrer was born in Wichita, Kansas, in...

The The White House Staff is a sequel to Patteron’s 1988 book, Ring of Power (Amazon.com). The author has interviewed some 130 men and women over the course of three years....

From the introduction in the book Fiction Reconstructed by Marina Grzinic. Published by the permission of the author. Order the...

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) is one of the great artists of the 20th century. The Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris dedicates a comprehensive exhibition to his — despite a publication by...

Alberto Fujimori was born in Lima, Peru, in 1938. He has a degree in agronomic engineering from the Agricultural National...

After 26 years in the service of the German city of Leipzig, Johann Sebastian Bach died on July 28, 1750. The Bach-year is still...

Malcolm Boyd’s Bach-biography from 1983 has been re-issued in German in the year 2000 by DVA. It covers the life and work of Johann Sebastian Bach, who died 250 years ago [English...

Order the book by James Fox from Amazon.co.uk. [Added on July 13, 2011: The movie was banned in the UK for many years. Order the DVD from Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.com]. The movie White...

The results of Taiwan’s Presidential Election: 39.3% for Chen Shui-bian (DPP), 36.8% for James Soong (independent), 23.1% for Lien Chan (KMT); Voters turnout: over 80%. There is only...

Biography and CD / album review of Latin Soul Music is a matter of taste. Poncho Sanchez, a Latin jazz and salsa singer and percussionist, has won a Grammy Award in 1999. Poncho Sanchez is...

History is no one-way street. It is among other things a combination of options, choices and coincidence. Before the fall of the Qing dynasty the first (limited) Chinese elections took...

Born in Budapest in 1952, the pianist, composer and conductor Zoltán Kocsis commenced his musical studies when he was 5 years old and continued them at the Béla Bartók Conservatory from...

Joachim-Ernst Berendt: The Jazz Book: From Ragtime to Fusion and Beyond. Paperback, 6th-1997 revised ed. (1992), 541 p. Order English versions of The Jazz Book from Amazon.com,...

Bruce Gilley: Tiger on the Brink. Jiang Zemin and China’s New Elite, Berkeley and Los Angeles, London, University of California Press, 1998, 395 S. Order the book from Amazon.com....

In the First World War, 2 million Germans, 1.7 million Russians and 1.7 million French, 1.5 million men of the Austrian-Hungarian...

Cosmopolis exclusive interview with Cornelio Sommaruga, President of the ICRC, late December 1999: ‘In the long run, it is...

People interested in an account of the Yeltsin era should turn to Lilia Shevtsova: Yeltsin’s Russia: myths and reality....