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James Hawes

Hitler’s legacy: two books examine different aspects of the horror that was Germany, 1945

James Hawes 21 September 2019 9:00 am

Two new books offer very different takes on the utter ruination of Germany in 1945. Each in its own way…

Franz Kafka. Credit: Getty Images

The absurd struggle to claim ownership of Kafka

James Hawes 5 January 2019 9:00 am

Benjamin Balint’s Kafka’s Last Trial is a legal and philosophical black comedy of the first water, complete, like all the…

‘Portrait of Friedrich Nietzsche’, Edvard Munch, c. 1906

Nietzsche’s intense friendship with Wagner forms the core of Sue Prideaux’s excellent new biography

James Hawes 29 September 2018 9:00 am

In 1945, with the second world war won bar the shouting, Bertrand Russell polished off his brief examination of Friedrich…

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