Kaput is about the problems facing Germany rather than the successes of the UK. Münchau (the clue is in the umlaut) is very ...

The Munich crisis in 1938 triggered air-raid precautions, including the distribution of gas masks and sandbags. Actual war in ...

The Story of Handel’s Messiah by Charles King ...

Mick Herron’s Slough House spy thrillers are, by now, one of the least well-kept secrets in espionage fiction. Everyone with even half an eye on the genre knows he’s somewhere near the top. He is ...

Using black-and-white photographs printed directly onto the page, Hornby found a playful, metatextual way to illustrate his ...

I’m an avid reader of Donleavy's novels of the sexual picaresque, though I suppose that, as a femininist, I should be ashamed of myself. A new one, Schultz, and the re-issue of The Onion Eaters (1971) ...

The production and export of cars, machinery and chemicals lay behind the German ‘economic miracle’ of the 20th century. Yet the German economy is now struggling. @HowardJDavies considers who is to ...

Spinoza, according to Bertrand Russell’s History of Western Philosophy, is ‘the noblest and most lovable of the great philosophers’. As a natural consequence of his ethical supremacy, Russell adds, ...

Buildings do a better job of surviving than people, sometimes by thousands of years. Indeed, we regard a building as a failure if it does not outlive the people who built it. There’s a joke in the ...

Changed in a Minute - The Collected Prose of Sylvia Plath by Peter K Steinberg (ed) ...

Once upon a time, an ambitious ruler concerned about a rising power on the other side of the globe decided to place a puppet king on a nearby throne in a country that was beautiful, rich in natural ...

Sharpe père died in 1944, shortly before he could be apprised of the realities of Belsen. Even with the benefit of Brendon’s ...