On the surface this appears to be a depiction of the final stages of a long war. Below that surface…

The Riveter
Thomas Mann’s Buddenbrooks takes the nineteenth-century novel into the twentieth century. It is one of the great social novels –…
You’ll never forget meeting Rosa, the splendidly horrible grandmother who narrates this novel. She’ll go to any length to get…
In early September 1944, Ulrich Wilhelm Schwerin von Schwanenfeld prepared to die. As he was about to face his executioners,…
When we first conceived the idea for The German Riveter we wanted to bring you snapshots of 1989 from the point of…
When we first conceived the idea for The German Riveter we wanted to bring you snapshots of 1989 from the point of…
When we first conceived the idea for The German Riveter we wanted to bring you snapshots of 1989 from the point of…
When we first conceived the idea for The German Riveter we wanted to bring you snapshots of 1989 from the…
In my introduction I mentioned that before working on The German Riveter my experience of German literature was limited to…
The change in mainstream mores that led to concessions such as a royal pardon for Alan Turing has also fed…
Maxim Biller, eh? He comes across as a bit of a one, a bit of a man-about-town. I don’t watch…
Readers may be familiar with Maxim Leo from his book Red Love: The Story of an East German Family (Pushkin,…