As emotive as the subject may be, Rot moves beyond sentiment, ideology and the false comforts of denial and denunciation. Scanlan evades the ventriloquism of more polemical histories. He lets the dead ...

Magnus Carlsen, the world No1, made a cameo appearance via video in last Monday’s third episode of BBC2’s Chess Masters: The Endgame, challenging contestants to memorise a position from a “special” ...