View from the Gods – Frank McNally on how the pandemic has been a golden age of balconies

Modernist puzzle: László Nemes and his bloody awkward film

Hungarian auteur’s new film Sunset shows a vanished Budapest on the edge of change

Living in the dark shadow of the Battle of Solferino

An Irishman’s Diary: Geneva Convention and Radetsky March are part of its legacy

Mourners bid farewell to ‘beguiling’ critic Eileen Battersby

Grieving daughter Nadia pays tribute to mother and friend ‘inspired by generosity’

Memories of Bosnian war persist 20 years after Dayton peace deal

Awful events have been powerfully captured in both fiction and non-fiction

Reclaiming the war: Army of ghosts

War writing at heart is about the ambivalence of loyalty to class, nation, and friends, and of belief and the business of being human, and more recent Irish writing on the Great War, in reopening a closed chapter in our history, is no different in exploring all those ambiguities

True face of Berlin begins to reveal itself

The survivor city seems to believe its future should look like its lost past

Iron Gustav: Could this be one of the finest novels any of us will ever read?

Review: Finally available in its complete form, Hans Fallada’s tome is a masterful study of dire adversity

Hubert Butler’s vivid insights put him among Europe’s best writers: The Appleman and the Poet

This fifth volume of work covers Russia, Yugoslavia, Kilkenny and Irish religion

Going to the Dogs: The Story of a Moralist, by Erich Kästner

A witty satire of 1920s Berlin, a city in financial and cultural upheaval, resonates in our time