Walter Benjamin — Peter E Gordon’s vivid pearl of a biography
A timely and valuable look at the critical insights of a great ‘European mind’ and a life ended while fleeing the Nazis
A timely and valuable look at the critical insights of a great ‘European mind’ and a life ended while fleeing the Nazis

The US novelist probes the porous border between the real and the unreal in this thrilling hall of mirrors

Anthony Gottlieb’s rich portrait captures both the spiritual and systematic sides of the Austrian philosopher

A nameless narrator finds connections with the American pioneer of modernism in a confounding, compelling fiction-biography hybrid

We are living in a ‘barbell’ world where international threat meets technological opportunity

This collection of the late writer’s correspondence is pure gold, shining with insights about literature and life

The writer and filmmaker posed uncomfortable questions about the country’s past