Erich Maria Remarque

An unheroic hero: Ginster, by Siegfried Kracauer, reviewed

4 October 2025 9:00 am

When Kracauer’s protagonist is finally conscripted in the first world war, he starves himself to ‘general physical debility’ and is sent to ‘peel potatoes against the foe’

High life

7 September 2013 9:00 am

I used to see him in El Morocco, the most famous nightclub of its era during the late Fifties and…