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Frederic Raphael

Past imperfect
"Before the screening, I made bold to ask the audience not to refrain from laughter. They were nice enough to obey my incitement"
Frederic Raphael

Hellenistic Hubris
Johanna Hanink's The Greek Debt asks if we owe the Greeks for the foundations of Western democracy—or do they owe us for their economic mismanagement?
Frederic Raphael

The Art Of Euphemism
Crofton Black and Edmund Clark's book Negative Publicity, which tracks Bush-era extraordinary renditions through photographs and redacted documents, is a compound of elegant presentation and rough stuff
Frederic Raphael

A British Subject
A new short story.
Frederic Raphael

Eichmann’s phoney banality
Stangneth’s clear-eyed work spells out the genesis and “logic” of Holocaust denial in all its macabre absurdity
Frederic Raphael

Eternal Land of the Golden Fleecing
Greeks have been fiddling the books ever since Agamemnon. Where else do you find such private generosity and public irresponsibility?
Frederic Raphael

Underrated: Claude Lanzmann
The great French film director's magnum opus, Shoah, brought home the reality of the Holocaust
Frederic Raphael

Bad Beyond Imagination
Bernhard Schlink's novel, The Reader, is both artistically and morally fraudulent. The oscar-winning film that sprung from it is no better
Frederic Raphael

Underrated: Abroad
The ravenous longing for the infinite possibilities of “otherwhere”
Stephen Bayley

The king of cakes
"Yuletide revels were designed to see you through the dark days — and how dark they seem today"
Carolyn Hart

A tripod in the sky
The view from above
Christian House
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