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The Assassination of Lumumba unravels the appalling mass of lies, hypocrisy and betrayals that have surrounded accounts of the 1961 assassination of Patrice Lumumba—the first prime minister of the Republic…

On the politics of literature: how writers create the worldIn The East was Red Pankaj Mishra beautifully demonstrates, using examples from all over the world, an important and lately neglected…