Fascists
Art and radicalism in 1930s Britain
Andy Friend describes the first decade of the AIA, a vital movement that blended art and politics in the fight against international fascism
A summer of suspense: recent crime fiction
The second world war features in haunting thrillers by Carlo Lucarelli and Andrew Taylor. Also reviewed: A Sting in the Tale, by Mark Ezra; and Kane, by Graham Hurley
The Islamist Nazis and Corbyn’s wilful blindness
Many people watching Jeremy Corbyn’s interview on Marr last Sunday will have been shocked by his remarks about the need…
Mother Courage
Italo Calvino, the Italian arch-fabulist, wrote a foreword to this celebrated wartime diary when it appeared in Italy in 1956.…
