Fear, shame, guilt, suicide: ordinary Germans at the end of the Second World War
The German people were seduced by Hitler’s message of glorious blood sacrifice – right up until it needed to be…
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Bernardine Evaristo’s Girl, Woman, Other is a story for our times
As David Olusoga observes in his book Black and British, in much of history “black figures are mute”, particularly the…
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Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming: dense world-building that glitters with comic detail
“Well and so here we are again, back with fear, because gigantic tomes should be written about that, a new…
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Beethoven’s political resonance
Beethoven was a musical revolutionary – but was he a political one, too?
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti: the man who gave 1950s San Francisco its beat
As a poet, an activist, a publisher and a businessman, 100-year-old Ferlinghetti has never shied away from promoting socialist principles on the…
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The enduring relevance of George Orwell’s 1984
Dorian Lynskey’s The Ministry of Truth manages, against all odds, to find many original points to make about the dystopian classic.
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Europe’s many migrant crises
Today’s migrant crisis is often talked about as an anomaly. But high levels of displacement and mobility have long been routine…
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“I’m capitulating to everything I hate”: Jia Tolentino on growing up online
The 30-year old author, hailed the voice of the social media generation, discusses her first book Trick Mirror.
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