A saga of survival

The year was 1987. The Soviet Union, under leader Mikhail Gorbachev, was approaching its final chapters. As if to catch the dying embers of the USSR, recently graduated pianist James Kirby left his li

An Oslo under German occupation must reckon with itself

To mark the 80th anniversary of VJ Day, John Eskdale and other survivors share their harrowing memories of war and stories of hope

Why books that became beloved classics struggled to find their way into print

WINDINGS NO STRAIGHT ROAD TAKES YOU THERE ...

Wyndham Lewis’s pro-fascist polemical novel was enabled by a left-wing writer