What looked like an unusually benign alignment of high growth and low inflation for India is now being tested by forces far beyond its borders. For a brief period, policymakers had the rare luxury of ...

The day after Thanksgiving, I got a voicemail. A woman identified herself as a doctor at the University of Louisville hospital: “I believe I may have one of your family members here.” The message was ...

In Britain political instability has become chronic. The story is grimly familiar. A once-triumphant prime minister’s poll ratings plummet and Downing Street turns into a bunker. A distant scandal ...

Below is a walkthrough for The Weaver's Predicament, a Side Quest in Octopath Traveler. There are multiple ways to solve this quest, so you can use either Therion or Tressa to complete this quest.

In William Boyd’s newest novel The Predicament, lead character and travel writer Gabriel Dax becomes a secret spy, scouring the globe on British orders during the Cold War. He’s looking for an escape ...

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NPR's Scott Simon talks to the Scottish writer William Boyd about his latest book, "The Predicament" – a spy thriller set during the height of the Cold War. Let me tell you about Gabriel Dax. He's a ...

According to the literary critic Harold Bloom, male writers have daddy issues. So keenly do they feel the oppressive influence of their forefathers that when they take up the pen it is to use it as a ...

William Boyd once wrote a Bond novel, Solo, but Gabriel Dax, the spy in The Predicament, is, unlike Bond, only reluctantly in the espionage business and really would like to devote himself full time ...

The United Nations General Assembly’s 80th session played out in an atmosphere of crisis. The institution that symbolised a cooperative world order now struggles with financial collapse and political ...

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