The man who saved primo levi

A tribute to Mario Vargas Llosa, chronicler of failed utopias

BIRKENAU’S WOMEN’S ORCHESTRA

The compromises and self-justifications of G. W. Pabst

When Thomas Joshua Cooper and Paul Hill set out in 1974 to meet and interview the ‘movers and shakers’ of 20th-century photography (see Dialogue with Legends, AP 1 April) they had no idea that the project would take four years and become a unique archive that is still in print. Paul Hill describes the first interview – American photographer Paul Strand in Paris – that kicked it off, followed by extracts from the recorded encounter

In the fourth instalment of his SAS Great Escapes series, Damien Lewis recounts, among others, an overlooked LRDG operation in occupied Yugoslavia

Living opposite Hitler In 1929, Edgar Feuchtwanger was ...