Oliver Farry

The starting point for Edwy Plenel’s short book, essentially an extended essay, is a speech by then EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell in Bruges in October 2022, which pitched the “garden” of Europe, “where everything works”, against most of the rest o... See more

British author and longtime Paris resident Andrew Hussey was moved to write this chronicle of a troubled contemporary France after inadvertently getting caught up in the Yellow Vests protests in late 2018 and noticing that the contingent expressing its an... See more

British writer Stuart Jeffries follows his last two books, cultural histories of the Frankfurt School and postmodernism, with one that malicious tongues might, however unfairly, view as a natural progression from those: a history of stupidity. In a series... See more