Walk with Us

The idea that our modern Western social order is inexorably the goal of social evolution should be dismissed. In the book The Dawn of...

Around 40 years after the Second World War, journalist-writer, Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich interviewed hundreds of women who served...

Kazuo Ishiguro's plaintive novel A Pale View of Hills is marked by clarity and mystery at the same time. The main character Etsuko, who...

Aino Sibelius, the wife of the great Finnish composer Jean Sibelius, was not a muse but an active figure in the creative work of her...

Even though there is a horrifying stream of images of war flooding from Ukraine, I decided to watch again the historical war film Ran by...

Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall trilogy is being praised everywhere. One reason for the success is certainly the fact that even if the novels...

The British author Ian McEwan is able to describe moments, moods and psychological relationships with magical precision. Even very young...

A civilized German officer, an admirer of high culture and a composer of classical music, stays in a house in occupied France. The master...

A mysterious traveller arrives in Wandernburg, a vaguely placed town somewhere in the area of present Germany in the early 19th century. ...