Orlando Figes (Top picture) recently agreed to pay damages to settle the dispute over his attempts to cover up his disparaging comments on Amazon.com. He has retracted his comments and agreed to pay legal comments, but if you read the statements by Rachel Polonsky (Middle picture) and Robert Service (Bottom picture), you will see that they are still very angry with Figes' behaviour and the stress it has caused them. Robert Service is particularly upset, stating that "it is inappropriate that a lecturer teaching about the lies in public life in Stalin’s USSR should himself be so menacing and dishonest." Faced with this onslaught, it is unlikely that Figes' reputation will be able to recover any time soon.
In other news, you may find this article on the joys of "slow reading" (compared to the fast skimming of articles and websites that the internet now encourages). Try to get to the end if you can!
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