Culture
The education of an American liberal
If you want to know what the much-abused term “liberal” really stands for in America, you should read this remarkable life
Writers’ lives (3)
Samuel’s friend
Writers’ lives (2)
No fairy tale
Britishness
Nation-gazing
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Writers’ lives (1)
Weeping woman
Wall Street
Capitalism, the soap
Death in Russia
Hearing silence
Recent German fiction
Re-run dreams
Fiction in English may dominate this week’s Frankfurt book fair. We take the chance to review three recent novels by new German authors
Writer’s lives