Essays in Austrian Literature by W G Sebald (Translated from German by Jo Catling) ...

Often books about the Third Reich have a last chapter called ‘Götterdämmerung’ or ‘Twilight of the Gods’. The Wagnerian link seems apt; wasn’t the anti-Semitic German nationalist Hitler’s favourite ...

The Scapegoat is Sophia Nikolaidou’s first book to be translated into English, despite her considerable literary reputation in Greece. It opens with the death of an American journalist as he is ...

That rough beast the Great American Novel has been slouching around since the 19th century in the form of hefty books by male authors, from Melville and Hemingway to Franzen and DeLillo. It’s always ...

Hitler’s Royal Welcome - The Hohenzollerns and the Nazis: A History of Collaboration by Stephan Malinowski (Translated from ...

The Travels of Norman Lewis by John Hatt (ed) ...

Gail looks out of her window and sees someone labouring towards the house. ‘Max, for God’s sake’, she thinks. Once they were a pair of young teachers intending to ‘grow old side by side’. They have ...

The History of a Color by Michel Pastoureau (Translated from French by Jody Gladding) ...

The box lay on the table. ‘Everything is in here,’ the man in white said in a thick German accent. ‘I have arrived this far, taken these actions, removed these people,’ he continued, ‘now it’s your ...

For two hundred years, Britain needed coal. The men who braved dreadful danger to hew it out of rocks miles underground were ...

The idea of the army being a safe space may strike us as strange, until you recall that China’s greatest living novelist, Yan ...

Early in 1634, two young Middle Temple lawyers helped organise one of the costliest entertainments ever staged before the Whitehall court, a masque celebrating the reign of Charles I entitled The ...