Nationalism: What Does 2016 Owe to 1916?

Memory Is a Dark Hole

A haunting mystery set in East Europe and an anodyne addition to Scandinavian noir

The Uses of Fear

Brussels, ISIS, and the death of moral leadership in the free world

How to Warp Time and Space in a Minute

Basel has always been a place where nothing needs add up at first sight

On Cloud Nine

From Munich to Mumbai in 58 days

Islamic Goals, European Fields

The Muslim influence on football is a worry that looms large in this part of the world after the Paris attacks

Nicolas Hénin: ‘France Should Not Make the Mistake the US Made After 9/11’

A Tough Compromiser

The author of The Tin Drum changed the art of the novel. And his politics was consistently problematic

My Experiments with Toilet Etiquette

With globalisation making us adopt the world’s best practices, could bathroom behaviour be far behind?

A Spectre Returns to Europe

Hard-edged nationalism and xenophobia of the 1930s are back in fashion in Europe, says British historian Frederick Taylor