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From Himmler to herring, a Swedish journalist offers unexpected angles on the 70s supergroup

Alfonso Cuarón’s new drama about a wife whose secrets are exposed looks beautiful. Sadly, it’s also slow, turgid and – despite stars like Kevin Kline – so bad it needs to be pureed into mush

Between 1939 and 1945, around 10% of concentration camp guards were women, yet these Aufseherinnen (overseers) as they were known, barely feature in Holocaust history or literature. On the few occasions they do appear, it is most commonly as a masculinised sadist when the reality was much more complex.

Literature in translation has long been reliant on indie presses to bring work such as the South Korean author’s to wider audiences

"Everybody should feel important enough to tell their story," Taddeo says on the desired effect of the adaptation

The author has simultaneously written a love letter to Australia and hate mail to those who lay waste to the Earth. Read it and weep

Though I have unfortunately had a career, my abiding love still remains the little job, the kind that divides the unbearable wash of our days into neat little segments

BORIS Johnson has pronounced that the “Union is safe”, giving thanks to Alister Jack ...

NICOLA Sturgeon has revealed she felt “a sense of affinity” with Boris Johnson while reading the former prime minister’s autobiography.