Archaeologist and author Rubén Montoya reviews the history of the famous location razed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. After wading through scores of artifacts, he says it was not the erotic destination some have made it out to be
In a fascinating book, the Icelandic researcher Bergsveinn Birgisson reveals the story of his medieval ancestor Geirmundur Hjörsson, forgotten by the sagas
In his book ‘Pax,’ Tom Holland reviews the period of splendor in Imperial Rome from Nero to Hadrian and tells of the terrible fate of Sporo, mutilated and forced to replace the deceased Empress Poppaea
While the father of psychoanalysis managed to escape from Vienna after the Anschluss in 1938, four of his sisters died in the camps. Three of them were gassed in Treblinka
The magnificent series, in the wake of ‘Band of Brothers’ and ‘The Pacific’, reconstructs the daring World War II American B-17 bomber missions with shocking realism
The series adaptation of the first novel from Bernard Cornwell’s splendid trilogy ‘The Warlord Chronicles’ doesn’t match the original’s mastery, but has its charms
The American scientist, a rising star in the study of dinosaurs, talks to EL PAÍS about what would have happened to the species if they had not been wiped out by the asteroid
An exhibition in Berlin debates what would have happened if German history had taken alternative paths and the allies had not unexpectedly captured the Remagen bridge intact, potentially extending World War II by months
The legendary undead have blended into the Third Reich in popular fiction. But reading the memoirs of a Waffen-SS member from Transylvania sheds light on very real evil
The Bram Stoker Festival offers intense experiences for the fans of the king of vampires and his creator, as it traces the footprints of both in the Irish capital
In ‘Beyond,’ Walker chronicles the space race between the Soviet Union and the U.S. He masterfully reconstructs the epic flight of Yuri Gagarin, the first human to leave the Earth and point the way to the stars
Novelist Massimiliano Colombo takes EL PAÍS on a tour of the Tullianum, the infamous underground prison where the warrior chief of Gaul languished for years awaiting execution, and now, the main setting of a magnificent new historical novel
The director of ‘Pulp Fiction’ spoke with EL PAÍS about the gun control debate in the United States and his love of Spanish cinema, among other subjects. He also acknowledged that he has a natural talent to create tension on-screen
Australian Jay Kristoff is the writer behind a monumental novel about the undead that at the same time pays tribute to and subverts the classics of the genre