Bart Van Es

How Anne Frank’s photograph became as recognisable as the Mona Lisa

29 March 2025 9:00 am

To date, the diary, pieced together from Anne’s notebooks, has sold more than 30 million copies worldwide, with her story further explored in plays, films and novels

That way madness lies

23 April 2022 9:00 am

There is a trend for books in which academics write personally about their engagement with literature. Examples include Lara Feigel’s…

An ‘unremarkable’ Nazi

3 October 2020 9:00 am

In October 2011 Daniel Lee was at a dinner party at which a Dutch woman told a disturbing story. It…