Thomas Crew
Thomas Crew is a PhD student at St Edmund's College, Cambridge, researching German dystopian literature. He has published on a number of 20th-century German authors, most recently on Ernst Jünger's novel The Glass Bees, and is frequently found researching in Berlin.
The Dystopian Age of the Mask
How Ernst Jünger predicted the ubiquity of masks
Welcome returns for three Irish writers
Why is the publishing industry so obsessed with debuts?
Germany in the Baroque Age
Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the cultural achievements of the Baroque Age in the German states
Doubling down on a fraud
Recalling the murky role played by civil rights leader Rev Al Sharpton in a notorious faked abduction case
The myth of the latest thing
Can Northern Irish politics evolve beyond nationalism and republicanism?
Ferdinand Ries: Piano Trio and Sextets (Hyperion)
Ludwig van Beethoven’s former secretary and pupil was no forgettable curiosity
Newly-minted mission statements
The Brexit coin takes bogus aspiration as part-ambition, part-accomplishment
It’s a 10 from me
Lunching at one of Soho’s finest as it celebrates a decade of unassuming excellence
Wogan: heavyweight with a light touch
The absence of Terry Wogan leaves a hole in radio presenting
Celebrate our multi-ethnic democracy
Rakib’s Britain: the UK has given a golden opportunity to minority Brits, so why are we told patriotism isn’t for us?
The gendrification of Ireland
How gender identity theory has become embedded in Irish society
Reynaldo Hahn: Poèmes & Valses (Hyperion)
This unfamiliar collection is the most enjoyable piano album of the year so far