A lyrical travel book on two lakes that divide and connect North Macedonia, Albania and Greece

Grandmaster Jonathan Rowson reflects on his life as a successful underachiever

Plus the swaggering True History of the Kelly Gang

Francesca Wade offers an elegant account of five women pursuing creative freedom in cosmopolitan London

Writers—both communist and anti-communist—rarely toed the party line

Learning two languages could help us focus—and be more rational

Plus Netflix's The English Game and the ITV's Flesh and Blood

The Myanmar leader has shown a fatal combination of arrogance and strategic cluelessness. Yet her people still love her

Even Churchill distanced himself from this “act of terror”

Martin Hägglund’s This Life sees the Swedish secular philosopher set up an imitation religion