French capital still haunted by second World War occupation
Paris Letter: Anselm Kiefer’s ‘For Paul Celan’ exhibition twists ‘knife in German wound’
John Boyne: How I wrote The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
The author recounts writing around the clock and cutting out every ‘gimmick’
What happens when a theatre actor loses a year?
The pandemic has given performers a chance to recalibrate ambitions and expectations
Michael Harding: ‘Do I know anything? Very f**king little’
The author on the poetry of religion and the heart attack that gave him a lift
A Silent Fury: The ugly truth about the El Bordo mine fire
Yuri Herrera’s narrative journalism about the 1920 tragedy and cover-up is devastating
Auschwitz anniversary: ‘I probably saw 300,000 Jewish people perish right in front of me’
75 years after the liberation of the death camp survivors recall its unspeakable horror
Go to Auschwitz, buy a trinket: Howard Jacobson on how we treat the Holocaust
Seventy-five years after the liberation of the Nazi death camp, are we betraying the dead?
Can a work of fiction about the Holocaust be inaccurate?
There’s a large quantity of new Holocaust fiction, and experts are worried about quality
The perfect office worker’s capacity for evil
This book seeks to reflect on the modern phenomenon of impersonal, bureaucratic murder.
The Famine: artists and the nightmare of our ‘crushed and bleeding soul’
Major exhibition shows how artists and illustrators tried to reflect the horrors of the Great Hunger
White Chrysanthemum by Mary Lynn Bracht review: A sea of troubles
The plight of Korea's 'comfort women' hits home in a thought-provoking debut
The Story of a Brief Marriage review: Till death do us part
Anuk Arudpragasam explores what it means to be alive when war takes away our dignity
The tricky ethics of painting human suffering
Brian Maguire’s paintings try to address the experiences of society’s outsiders
Elie Wiesel: Holocaust survivor whose fame forced the world to remember
Obituary: Writer, activist and Nobel Laureate who had a significant impact on American life
Hiroshima Haiku: Expressing horror in 17 syllables
Hiroshima Day – I believe there must be bones, Under the paved street
Una Mullally: Eddie Holt – one of those passionate teachers who change lives
‘He took the painful Leaving Cert English essay style we had all arrived with and destroyed it’
VE Day: Joy in Europe, but worse horrors of WWII were yet to come
Eileen Battersby: Europe’s streets lined with people too exhausted by six years of grief
In memory of Primo Levi, author and Auschwitz survivor
Eileen Battersby recalls the day she met Primo Levi and assesses his career
Holocaust Memorial Day: 10 books that bear witness
To mark today’s 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, here is a reading list of works that address Nazi Germany’s atrocities and their legacy
Cinema director whose probing films investigated Italian corruption
Francesco Rosi: November 15th, 1922 - January 10th, 2014
Martin Amis: ‘How can one claim to be human without looking at what we have done?’
Martin Amis is a deeply moral writer with a Swiftian vigour. In his latest novel, ‘The Zone of Interest’, he returns to the story of the Nazi death camps
In Paradise
Review: A parting masterclass in fiction spins the tale of a gathering of 100 ‘witness bearers’ at a week-long meditative retreat at Auschwitz
The torment of memory and the fear of forgetting
The Brazilian writer Michael Laub’s story of three generations affected by the Holocaust is remarkable for its gifted writing and exceptional translation
Stranger than fiction: when crime captures the imagination
Nicola White’s new novel ‘In the Rosary Garden’ was inspired by the Kerry Babies tribunal and the Ann Lovett case. We recommend some other real-life fiction from Ireland and abroad
A courageous but flawed response to an outrage
Jaspreet Singh’s second novel focuses on the massacre of thousands of Sikhs after the assassination of Indira Gandhi, in 1984. But it is only a roughly fleshed out draft of what could have been a major work
Italo Calvino, Letters 1941-1985, selected and with an introduction by Michael Wood, translated by Martin McLaughlin.
A vastly entertaining collection, meticulously edited and annotated
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