‘See ancient beauty revived’

Mitchell Loeb’s 1947 travel poster was designed in support of a Jewish homeland. With hindsight, ironies abound.

Return journey

I thought about writing something here when the journalist and novelist Gordon Burn died, quite young, earlier this summer, but … More

I’m going to the north of Ireland on holiday quite soon, so I’m tuned in to stories about Irishness at … More

This quote from the film-maker Claude Lanzmann, who made Shoah, among other documentaries: “Museums and monuments institute oblivion as well … More