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Germany is now deporting pro-Palestine EU citizens. This is a chilling new step | Hanno Hauenstein

The country’s so-called political centre has licensed a new era of authoritarianism – to the AfD’s delight

A crackdown on political dissent is well under way in Germany. Over the past two years, insti…

61 days ago

Memories of a Catholic Girlhood by Mary McCarthy review – incurable sadness if bravely borne

Colm Tóibín introduces this welcome reprint of the US author and critic’s poignant account of orphanhood, first published in 1957

Mary McCarthy was a formidable, not to say frightening, figure in the …

62 days ago

The CIA Book Club by Charlie English review – chapter and verse as a weapon of war

A gripping study of the CIA smuggling operation to get banned books behind the iron curtain

In March 1984 Polish customs officers noticed a suspicious truck. It had arrived on an overnight ferry from …

70 days ago

‘It allowed us to survive, to not go mad’: the CIA book smuggling operation that helped bring down communism

From George Orwell to Hannah Arendt and John le Carré, thousands of blacklisted books flooded into Poland during the cold war, as publishers and printers risked their lives for literature

The volume’s…

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