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Season’s bleatings from Germany
A search for plenitude in the Christmas markets of Bonn, Siegburg and Köln
December 23, 2023 -
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My Kafkaesque nightmare in Prague
How a family holiday redefined my understanding of modernist literature
October 2, 2023 -
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Book review: White Sight, Nicholas Mirzoeff
Nineteenth century civic statues are so boring. Colourless, elevated, obscure, pompous, they have, for a very long time, eluded questioning. To topple one of these monuments, to go so far as to dump one into the sea, is to make the whatever bronze idol, appear to us fresh, and in disgrace. If there is such …
April 6, 2023