Robert Chandler
Robert Chandler is a poet and translator. He is the editor of Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida (Penguin) and the author of Alexander Pushkin (Pushkin Press). His translations include Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman
Writer who caught the reality of war
Vasily Grossman was not only a great correspondent in World War Two but a courageous dissident
When America ignored a slaughter
Whatever America’s flaws, its absence from the global stage leaves a space quickly filled by far more malevolent actors
Are Jewish students really afraid of the Freedom of Speech Act?
Some of have raised concerns, yes, but generalisations are wrong and unhelpful
The failure of the Irish nerve
Politicians are not acting and the public are not forcing them to act
Terence Rattigan
The subtly subversive chronicler of Englishness still makes grown men cry
The art of violence
High jinks in the Groucho Club are small beer when compared to the misdeeds of their artist ancestors
Some picture-perfect restorations
What we were seeing looked as good as it would have at its premiere
The blame, again, falls on Sinn Fein
The party responded appallingly to its press officer being accused of child sex offences
The Worlds of Marco Polo: The Journey of a Thirteenth-Century Venetian Merchant; Palazzo Ducale, Venice
For millennia all that was rare, exquisite, gorgeous and strange traversed the “Silk Road”
Letters August-September
To paraphrase the Jeremy Corbyn defence, were the Tory Right present but not involved?