Inside Story

Books & arts On the margins Geoff Wilkes 1 June 2026 Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz’s first novel struggles to engage with the self-destruction of the Weimar Republic Books & arts Portraying the age Geoff Wilkes 4 October 2022 Joseph Roth’s restless journeying produced an idiosyncratic depiction of central Europe in the twenties and thirties From the archive “I feared I would never be able to write a book again” Geoff Wilkes 20 October 2011 A bestselling author in the early thirties, Irmgard Keun left Nazi Germany in 1936 only to return during the war