How we talk about the holocaust now

Leading historians share the texts that have inspired and informed their work

It all started promisingly enough. French biologist Gabriela Lobinska had enjoyed her Ph.D. training, researching how organisms change over time. Arriving at Harvard Medical School in September 2024,

When the phone rings and it’s Daniel Hope, a useful starter to the conversation is to ask where in the world he’s ringing from. And though he’ll jokily reply, ‘I’m sometimes not so sure’, it isn’t muc

Eduardo Halfon Tarantula Translated by Daniel Hahn 192pp. Hamish Hamilton. Paperback, £10.99. When I was a teenager growing up in apartheid South Africa, in the midst of a low-grade civil war, white s

In 1939, at the start of the Second World War, the government planned to evacuate 1.5 million civilians, mostly school children, mothers and other vulnerable people, from cities at risk of bombing to

Naz Shah’s traumatic life The Labour MP Naz ...