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The German Question

The German Genius: Europe's Third Renaissance, the Second Scientific Revolution and the Twentieth Century by Peter Watson; Fame by Daniel Kehlmann; The Box by Günter Grass; and Portrait of the Mother as

October 22, 2010

Books·Germany·Heritage·Literature

All About Himself

La Carte et le Territoire by Michel Houellebecq

October 22, 2010

Books·France·Literature

Mentioned in Dispatches

Letters from London and Europe by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, tranlated by J. G. Nichols

October 22, 2010

Books·Literature

Smoke on the Water

A World on Fire: An Epic History of Two Nations Divided by Amanda Foreman

October 22, 2010

Books·History·Literature

The Lesson of Oz

"Australian politics is in turmoil of a type and intensity not seen for 70 years"

October 22, 2010

Australasia·Constitutional Affairs·Dispatches·Politics

Super Mario

A brilliant writer with remarkable political gifts, Mario Vargas Llosa is a worthy winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

October 21, 2010

Counterpoints·Latin America·Literature

The Politics of Envy

That Howard Jacobson and V. S. Naipaul are non-members of the London literary establishment does them credit

October 21, 2010

Counterpoints·Literature

China’s Great Firewall

The "Golden Shield Project" is blocking access to great swathes of the web, but Chinese netizens are fighting back

October 21, 2010

China·Counterpoints·Technology

See No Evil

The "independent inquiry" into the radicalisation of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab at UCL was a pathetic embarrassment

October 21, 2010

Counterpoints·Education·War on Terror

Hegemony 101

Antonio Gramsci's great theory has cropped up in an unlikely place — the A-level geography classroom

October 21, 2010

Counterpoints·Education

Flouting (Not Flaunting) the Rules of English

The teaching of grammar should be at the heart of the school syllabus. Without it we are killing intellectual curiosity

October 21, 2010

Critique·Education·Heritage·Language

Incurable Romantics

The historian Tim Blanning and the critic Jonathan Bate discuss the place of Romanticism in contemporary culture with the Editor of Standpoint, Daniel Johnson

October 21, 2010

Dialogue·Literature·Politics

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