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Rather than blaming carbon, Paul Hawken argues we should recognise its role in animating life. This way, we can heal the planet

Paul Hawken’s Carbon is about a decade in the making. Perhaps the book’s long gestation is why it feels so familiar,

The Conversation · May 26, 2025

A Man of Few Words by Carlo Greppi review – Primo Levi’s saviour… and a tortured soul

An intriguing study of Lorenzo Perrone, the bricklayer who helped the famous author survive Auschwitz – then lost the will to live

The Guardian - UK · Feb 3, 2025

Starmer: Holocaust was ‘collective endeavour’ by ordinary people consumed by hatred

The Prime Minister spoke of his ‘harrowing’ visit to Block 27 at Auschwitz with his wife Victoria earlier this month.

Evening Standard · Jan 27, 2025

Historians warn of hate's mission creep

His stormtroopers will round up anyone they decide does not belong in this country, whether they’re citizens or not

Salon · Sep 26, 2024

Badenheim 1939; Katerina; The Story of a Life by Aharon Appelfeld review – survivors’ tales full of beauty and pain

Memory and trauma go hand in hand in these two novels and a memoir by the late Israeli writer, who shows that hope can be worse than despair

The Guardian - UK · Aug 12, 2024

Best books about the Second World War to read this year

From memoirs and biographies to historical deep dives into the war’s most brutal battles, these are some of the best books about WWII

Evening Standard · May 17, 2024

Jonathan Glazer on his holocaust film The Zone of Interest: ‘This is not about the past, it’s about now’

The director’s audacious new film about Auschwitz’s commandant was 10 years in the making. He explains how it was made – and the importance of finding light in the darkness

The Guardian - UK · Dec 10, 2023

Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad by Daniel Finkelstein review – a family in peril

The journalist’s story of how his parents lived through the Holocaust reads like a thriller, but it’s the wider focus on how liberal values were powerless in the face of fascism that makes it a modern classic

The Guardian - UK · Jun 4, 2023

Like Primo Levi at Auschwitz, Behrouz Boochani testifies for the people who lived and died in a prison camp

This is an edited extract from Freedom, Only Freedom: The Prison Writings of Behrouz Boochani.

The Conversation · Dec 7, 2022

The Escape Artist by Jonathan Freedland review – the man who broke out of Auschwitz

The astonishing story of how Rudolf Vrba escaped the Nazi camp, and his mission to tell the world about it

The Guardian - UK · Jun 8, 2022