I attended a workshop in Fulda, a city right in the middle of Germany. To medievalists, it is best known as the resting place ...

Towards the end of this brief, eclectic book, James C. Scott quotes disapprovingly the Soviet writer Maxim Gorky’s ...

It's not only on the President of the USA that questions have landed about the accuracy of his public statements (whether ...

Alice Chadwick’s impressive debut novel unfolds within a twenty-four-hour period in a nameless small town in 1980s England. Teenagers, out on a hot summer evening, wander between the weir, a party, ...

Catherine Swire’s sister, Flora, was killed, aged twenty-three, in the bomb that exploded Pan Am Flight 103 above Lockerbie, southwest Scotland, in 1988. Swire’s parents have spoken publicly about ...

that seem to stretch all sense of reason: ...

Daniel Butt (Letters, February 21) concedes one of my main points in his response to my earlier letter. He admits that it was right for West Germany to pay reparations for Nazi crimes, even though the ...

Huawei – one of the world’s largest and most powerful technology firms – is rarely out of the media spotlight. Yet we know surprisingly little about its origins and inner workings. In House of Huawei, ...

Money to Burn (Penge på lommen, 2020) is the first in a projected seven-novel series by the Danish poet and novelist Asta Olivia Nordenhof. The author has ...

Guess who’s back? “He is a thief, and a glutton, a coward, and a boaster, always ready to cheat the weak, and prey upon the poor; to terrify the timorous ...

The Museum of Lost and Fragile Things is a fever dream of a book, gripping and trippy. Suzanne Joinson, a bestselling novelist, describes growing up on a ...

Suetonius’s biographies of the rulers of Rome, from Julius Caesar to the emperor Domitian, are rich in character and telling detail – as emerges with clarity from Tom Holland’s excellent new ...