Timothy Garton Ash is Professor of European Studies and Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at St. Antony’s College, Oxford, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford. He is the author of many books, including The Magic Lantern, an eyewitness account of the velvet revolutions of 1989. His most recent book is Facts Are Subversive: Political Writing from a Decade Without a Name. He is currently leading an Oxford University research project for the discussion of global free speech norms (www.freespeechdebate.com) and working on a book about free speech.
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‘Choices for an Uncrowned Queen’
June 6, 2013
The Roadmap
by Suragamika
Bones Will Crow: 15 Contemporary Burmese Poets
edited and translated from the Burmese by Ko Ko Thett and James Byrne
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Insult the King and… Go Directly to Jail
May 23, 2013
Truth on Trial in Thailand: Defamation, Treason, and Lèse-Majesté
by David Streckfuss
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India: Watch What You Say
April 25, 2013
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Freedom & Diversity: A Liberal Pentagram for Living Together
November 22, 2012
Europe’s Angry Muslims: The Revolt of the Second Generation
by Robert S. Leiken
Muslims in Europe: A Report on 11 EU Cities by the Open Society Institute
The Emancipation of Europe’s Muslims: The State’s Role in Minority Integration
by Jonathan Laurence
The New Religious Intolerance: Overcoming the Politics of Fear in an Anxious Age
by Martha C. Nussbaum
Immigrant Nations
by Paul Scheffer, translated from the Dutch by Liz Waters
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Germans, More or Less
February 24, 2011
Deutschland Schafft Sich Ab: Wie wir unser Land aufs Spiel setzen (Germany Abolishes Itself: How We Are Putting Our Country at Risk) by Thilo Sarrazin
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Tony Judt (1948–2010)
September 30, 2010
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Velvet Revolution: The Prospects
December 3, 2009
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1989!
November 5, 2009
1989: The Struggle to Create Post–Cold War Europe
by Mary Elise Sarotte
Uncivil Society: 1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment
by Stephen Kotkin, with a contributionby Jan T. Gross
Der Vorhang Geht Auf: Das Ende der Diktaturen in Osteuropa by György Dalos
The Year That Changed the World: The Untold Story Behind the Fall of the Berlin Wall
by Michael Meyer
Histoire secrète de la chutedu mur de Berlin by Michel Meyer
Revolution 1989: The Fall of the Soviet Empire
by Victor Sebestyen
The Fall of the Berlin Wall: The Revolutionary Legacy of 1989
edited by Jeffrey A. Engel
There Is No Freedom Without Bread! 1989 and the Civil War That Brought Down Communism
by Constantine Pleshakov
Tear Down This Wall: A City, a President, and the Speech That Ended the Cold War
by Romesh Ratnesar
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A Fateful Election
November 6, 2008
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The Road from Danzig
August 16, 2007
Beim Häuten der Zwiebel by Günter Grass
Dummer August by Günter Grass
Ein Buch, Ein Bekenntnis: Die Debatte um Günter Grass’ “Beim Häuten der Zwiebel” by Martin Kölbel
Peeling the Onion
by Günter Grass, translated from the German by Michael Henry Heim
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‘The Stasi on Our Minds’: An Exchange
July 19, 2007
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The Stasi on Our Minds
May 31, 2007
The Lives of Others a film directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Das Leben der anderen: Filmbuch by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
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Islam in Europe
October 5, 2006
Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo Van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance
by Ian Buruma
The Caged Virgin: An Emancipation Proclamation for Women and Islam
by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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The Twins’ New Poland
February 9, 2006
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Soldiers of the Hidden Imam
November 3, 2005
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The Orange Revolution
April 28, 2005
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A Genius for Friendship
September 23, 2004
Letters, 1928–1946
by Isaiah Berlin, edited by Henry Hardy
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Orwell’s List
September 25, 2003
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Anti-Europeanism in America
February 13, 2003
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On the Frontier
November 7, 2002
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Europe at War
December 20, 2001
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Is There a Good Terrorist?
November 29, 2001
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Odd Man Out
November 1, 2001
The Heart Beats on the Left
by Oskar Lafontaine, translated from the Germanby Ronald Taylor
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The European Orchestra
May 17, 2001
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The Last Revolution
November 16, 2000
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Kosovo: Was It Worth It?
September 21, 2000
Kosovo: War and Revenge
by Tim Judah
Winning Ugly: NATO’s War to Save Kosovo
by Ivo H Daalder, by Michael E. O'Hanlon
Virtual War: Kosovo and Beyond
by Michael Ignatieff
Kosovo House of Commons. Foreign Affairs Committee, London: Stationery Office
The Crisis in Kosovo 1989-1999 by Marc Weller
Kosovo: Contending Voices on Balkan Interventions
by William J. Buckley
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Beauty and the Beast in Burma
May 25, 2000
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Anarchy & Madness
February 10, 2000
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Ten Years After
November 18, 1999
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Kosovo and Beyond
June 24, 1999
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Hail Ruthenia!
April 22, 1999
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The Puzzle of Central Europe
March 18, 1999
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Cry, the Dismembered Country
January 14, 1999
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Goodbye to Bonn
November 5, 1998
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Orwell in 1998
October 22, 1998
The Complete Works of George Orwell edited by Peter Davison, assisted by Ian Angus, by Sheila Davison
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Europe: Iceberg Ahead
May 14, 1998
Europe Adrift
by John Newhouse
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The Truth About Dictatorship
February 19, 1998
Transitional Justice: How Emerging Democracies Reckon with Former Regimes Studies, 780 pp.; Volume III: Laws, Rulings, and Reports, 834 pp., Volume I: General Considerations, 604 pp.; Volume II: Country, edited by Neil J. Kritz
Politik und Schuld: Die zerstörerische Macht des Schweigens [Politics and Guilt: The Destructive Power of Staying Silent] by Gesine Schwan
Die Enquete-Kommission ‘Aufarbeitung von Geschichte und Folgen der SED-Diktatur in Deutschland’ im Deutschen Bundestag [Inquiry Commission in the German Bundestag (for the) ‘Treatment of the Past and Consequences of the SED-Dictatorship in Germany’]
Spór o PRL [The Controversy about the Polish People’s Republic]
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Not Comparable
December 4, 1997
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The Curse and Blessing of South Africa
August 14, 1997
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True Confessions
July 17, 1997
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The Imperfect Spy
June 26, 1997
Man Without A Face: The Autobiography of Communism’s Greatest Spymaster by Markus Wolf
Die Troika (The Troika) by Markus Wolf. (out of print)
In eigenem Auftrag (On My Own Orders) by Markus Wolf. (out of print)
Geheimnisse der russischen Küche (Secrets of Russian Cuisine) by Markus Wolf
Markus Wolf: ‘Ich bin kein Spion’ (Markus Wolf: ‘I Am Not a Spy’) by Irene Runge, by Uwe Stelbrink. (out of print)
Spymaster: The Real-Life Karla, His Moles, and the East German Secret Police by Leslie Colitt
Wolfs West-Spione (Wolf’s West-Spies) by Peter Richter, by Klaus Rösler
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In the Serbian Soup
April 24, 1997
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Hungary’s Revolution: Forty Years On
November 14, 1996
The Hungarian Revolution of 1956: Reform, Revolt and Repression, 1953-1963 H. Legers. edited by György Litván. English version edited and translated by János M. Bak and Lyman
Hungary’s Negotiated Revolution: Economic Reform, Social Change, and Political Succession, 1957-1990 by Rudolf L. Tokés
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Tracer
April 4, 1996
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On Olga Havel (1933–1996)
March 21, 1996
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The Foul Balkan Sky?
March 21, 1996
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‘Neo-Pagan’ Poland
January 11, 1996
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Bosnia in Our Future
December 21, 1995
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Do Trials Work?
October 19, 1995
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Central Europe: The Present Past
July 13, 1995
The Haunted Land: Facing Europe’s Ghosts After Communism by Tina Rosenberg
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Prague: Intellectuals & Politicians
January 12, 1995
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Kohl’s Germany: The Beginning of the End?
December 1, 1994
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Journey to the Post-Communist East
June 23, 1994
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An Appeal
February 11, 1993
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Let the East Europeans In!
October 24, 1991
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Solidarity’s Sources
October 24, 1991
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Poland After Solidarity
June 13, 1991
The Roots of Solidarity: A Political Sociology of Poland’s Working-Class Democratization by Roman Laba
Breaking the Barrier: The Rise of Solidarity in Poland by Lawrence Goodwyn
Rok 1989: Bronislaw Geremek Opowiada, Jacek Zakowski Pyta (The Year 1989: Bronislaw Geremek Relates, Jacek Zakowski Asks)
Droga Do Wolnosci: 19851990, Decydujace Lata (The Path to Freedom: 19851990, the Decisive Years) by Lech Walesa
Wódz (The Chief) by Jaroslaw Kurski
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The Plight of Kosovo
April 11, 1991
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The Gulf in Europe
March 7, 1991
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Germany at the Frontier
January 17, 1991
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Germany Unbound
November 22, 1990
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The Chequers Affair
September 27, 1990
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Eastern Europe: Après Le Déluge, Nous
August 16, 1990
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Ten Thoughts on the New Europe
June 14, 1990
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East Germany: The Solution
April 26, 1990
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Eastern Europe: The Year of Truth
February 15, 1990
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The Revolution of the Magic Lantern
January 18, 1990
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The German Revolution
December 21, 1989
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Revolution in Hungary and Poland
August 17, 1989
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Revolution: The Springtime of Two Nations
June 15, 1989
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The Prague Advertisement
December 22, 1988
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Reform or Revolution?
October 27, 1988
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The Opposition
October 13, 1988
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The Empire in Decay
September 29, 1988
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Remembering the Uprising
December 3, 1987
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Churchill’s Papers
September 24, 1987
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From World War to Cold War
June 11, 1987
Armed Truce: The Beginnings of the Cold War 194546 by Hugh Thomas
British Policy Towards the Soviet Union During the Second World War by Martin Kitchen
The Iron Curtain: Churchill, America, and the Origins of the Cold War
by Fraser J. Harbutt
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In the Churchill Museum
May 7, 1987
Winston S. Churchill: Vol. VII, Road to Victory, 19411945 by Martin Gilbert
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‘The Life of Death’: An Exchange
January 29, 1987
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Does Central Europe Exist?
October 9, 1986
The Power of the Powerless: Citizens Against the State in Central-Eastern Europe by Václav Havel et al., introduction by Steven Lukes, edited by John Keane
The Anatomy of a Reticence by Václav Havel
Antipolitics: An Essay by George Konrád, Translated from the Hungarian by Richard E. Allen
Letters from Prison and Other Essays
by Adam Michnik, translated by Maya Latynski, foreword by Czeslaw Milosz, introduction by Jonathan Schell
Takie czasy Rzecz o kompromisie by Adam Michnik
KOR: A History of the Workers’ Defense Committee in Poland, 19761981 by Jan Józef Lipski, translated by Olga Amsterdamska, by Gene M. Moore
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Crackdown in Hungary
May 29, 1986
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‘Shoah’ and Poland
May 8, 1986
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An Event in Hungary
March 13, 1986
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The Life of Death
December 19, 1985
Heimat A film by Edgar Reitz
Shoah A film by Claude Lanzmann
Shoah: An Oral History of the Holocaust the complete text of the film by Claude Lanzmann, preface by Simone de Beauvoir
When Light Pierced the Darkness: Righteous Christians and the Polish Jews by Nechama Tec
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The Hungarian Lesson
December 5, 1985
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Poland: The Uses of Adversity
June 27, 1985
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East of the West
May 9, 1985
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Which Way Will Germany Go?
January 31, 1985
Wo Deutschland Liegt: Eine Ortsbestimmung by Günter Gaus
Die Fernen Nachbarn: Erfahrungen in der DDR by Klaus Bölling
From Red to Green: Interviews with New Left Review by Rudolf Bahro, translated by Gus Fagan, by Richard Hurst
Cassandra by Christa Wolf, translated by Jan van Heurck
Die Deutsche Geschichte Geht Weiter by Richard von Weizsäcker
Fighting for Hope by Petra Kelly, introduction by Heinrich Böll, translated by Marianne Howarth
Judith by Rolf Hochhuth
Schwarzenberg by Stefan Heym
The Wall Jumper by Peter Schneider, translated by Leigh Hafrey
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Back Yards
November 22, 1984
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Tony Judt (1948–2010)
August 20, 2010
The poet Paul Celan said of his native Czernowitz that it was a place where people and books used to live. Tony Judt was a man for whom books lived, as well as people. His mind, like his apartment on Washington Square, was full of books—and they walked with him, arguing, to the very end.