Coronavirus: France turns to literature amid the despair of pandemic

Paris Letter: The French are finding relevance in books about epidemics and confinement

Living in the dark shadow of the Battle of Solferino

An Irishman’s Diary: Geneva Convention and Radetsky March are part of its legacy

So Long, Farewell – An Irishman’s Diary about Stefan Zweig, St Koloman, and the ups and downs of Austria

The world catches up with Stefan Zweig’s vision

The Austrian writer of the 1930s, a friend of James Joyce and inspiration for Wes Anderson, is back in vogue as his view of a world changing for the worse captures the zeitgeist

2016: The 50 best films on Netflix

While some movies have vanished from the streaming service, many have arrived and there are plenty to fill the summer evenings, from comedy classics like ‘Airplane’ to thrillers such as ‘Winter’s Bone’

Berlin counts the cost of the Nazis’ cultural crackdown

Memorials to the culling that began in 1933 are reminders of the loss of diversity