It is clear in Michael Scammell’s comprehensive biography that Arthur Koestler was an exceedingly difficult and troubled man. Even those who revered Koestler as the author of “Darkness at Noon,” his ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Political commentators today tend to celebrate a certain kind of skepticism promoted by Cold War intellectuals, men who ...

Arthur Koestler’s classic story of Stalinist purges has hitherto been known through an incomplete translation by his girlfriend – until a student found the original in an archive When it was first ...

Fans of Arthur Koestler’s 1940 novel “Darkness at Noon,” the formerly communist author’s allegorical take on Stalin’s increasingly totalitarian grip on the USSR, are in for a shock. According to the ...

Koestler, more famous in his lifetime for his disillusionment with communism, was known to be unfaithful with several women. The full extent of his often brutal philandering, however, now threatens to ...

Arthur Koestler is back in the news – or at least back on the books pages. The reason for this is the publication of Michael Scammell's excellent, long-awaited biography, which I've been reading in ...

Koestler: The Indispensable Intellectual by Michael Scammell, The Unnamed by Joshua Ferris and Philip Ball's The Music Instinct "Michael Scammell has laboured a quarter of a century to get the full ...

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Seventy years ago, Israel declared independence, and the Manchester Guardian sent the leftwing intellectual to cover the nascent state. But was he an altogether accurate witness? ‘In the beginning was ...