Christoph Ransmayr may be a much-garlanded author across the German-speaking world, but his profile in the UK is not nearly…
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It’s always dangerous for a writer to echo George Orwell; few can hope to equal the lucidity and power of…
My own stay at the Salpêtrière hospital in Paris, on the Charcot ward for neurological disease, was thankfully rather less…
It was late in the day but still early in the genocide of August 2014 as the sun began to…
The year is 1945 and Berlin – the capital of the Thousand-Year Reich – is a city eviscerated by war.…
You, like me, may never have heard of Ostap Vyshnia. That’s the pseudonym of a Ukrainian writer and satirist who…