Alex Von Tunzelmann

Alex von Tunzelmann’s Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire was published last year. She writes a film column for The Guardian Online and is working on a book about the Cold War in the Caribbean.

Time to Make Nice with Cuba?

If Obama embraces his popularity in Cuba and abandons the embargo, the Castros will lose an enemy, the region will embrace us—and it will ruin the place.

Alex Von Tunzelmann

Sixty Years of Meddling and Bad Blood

Pakistan, born in the scrabble to decolonize after World War II, has suffered from endless American and British meddling. Now is the time for slow understanding, not a quick exit.

Alex Von Tunzelmann