Jewish History
Art’s tragic tug of war
Like Scheherazade, Bruno Schulz traded his art for life
Very essence of a Jewish writer’s life
Howard Jacobson stands his life on its head
Turkish delight
Sir Simon Milton is one of the men who destroyed London
Behind bars, among stars
Escaped from Nazi Germany, a teenage boy found himself a prisoner in Britain
Forgotten films
Streaming services contain a wealth of overlooked foreign-language war stories
From Brick Lane to Brixton
Stoddard Martin delves into a world beyond police and courtroom, with its own code of right and wrong, in Gerald Jacobs’s Pomeranski
How Europe slowly came to terms with the Holocaust
And with what shifting emphasis do different countries remember the crime? Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss
Bursting the myth of the “people’s war”
The Home Guard was not a nation-in-arms of the Jacobin kind
Hi-energy nutrients
Schoenfield, Vivier, Bartok &c (Accentus Music)
Assisted dying and the suicidal
The culture around assisted dying could aggravate the thoughts of the suicidal
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
Making a difference
Over the past five years we’ve been keeping things civilised
The WASPI women should blame themselves
No injustice has been done to them
The definitive Brexit book—for now
Shipman captures the compelling drama of Britain’s greatest peacetime political crisis since the People’s Budget
Free speech is fascist
Words must be controlled to ensure that Starmer’s subjects behave themselves
Graduation blues
On the sad decline of the British university
Should we feel pity for the Pelicot accused?
To have endured pain does not excuse inflicting pain
A beguiling star who loved melodrama
Taylor’s hunger for money, flashy gizmos and flashier gewgaws found its echo in Burton’s need to forsake the classics
