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Little voice
Hugh Dillon reviews W.G. Sebald’s On the Natural History of Destruction and Mark Roseman’s The Villa, the Lake, the Meeting: Wannsee and the Final Solution.
Passing on inherited wisdom is always fraught. Especially when the wisdom clashes with that of the prevailing culture.
Ralph Carolan reviews Frank McCourt's Teacher Man, and finds that the life of a teacher can be a sometimes solitary, sometimes Sisyphean, and sometimes satisfying job.
Kirsty Sangster looks at the effectiveness of truth commissions.
Real peace is likely to come to Northern Ireland only when a new generation sets aside the long-dead icons of 1916 and 1922.
Determined to preserve old stories and encourage young voices, tribal elders in Western Australia took a bold publishing step.
Sarah Kanowski savours Orhan Pamuk’s Istanbul: Memories of a City.