Timothy Garton Ash | The New York Review of Books

‘Europe Whole and Free’

After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, Europe looked forward to finally being whole, free, and at peace. Is that vision coming closer or receding?

November 2, 2023 issue

Yearning to Breathe Free

The opening of the Berlin Wall was a one-in-a-million piece of historical luck.

May 11, 2023 issue

Second Time as Tragedy

“The only way this war can end well is if the Ukrainians recover most of their territory.”

February 18, 2023

Ukraine in Our Future

Ukraine faces extraordinary challenges, but it also presents a challenge for Europe—and a great opportunity.

Unmaking Imperial Russia: Mykhailo Hrushevsky and the Writing of Ukrainian History

by Serhii Plokhy

Der Krieg gegen die Ukraine: Hintergründe, Ereignisse, Folgen [The War Against Ukraine: Background, Events, Consequences]

by Gwendolyn Sasse

The Zelensky Effect

by Olga Onuch and Henry E. Hale

The Frontline: Essays on Ukraine’s Past and Present

by Serhii Plokhy

February 23, 2023 issue

Time for a New Liberation?

Central Europe had its revolution in 1989. What it needs now is a great reform.

October 24, 2019 issue

Jesus Rex Poloniae

August 16, 2018 issue

It’s the Kultur, Stupid

Xenophobic right-wing nationalism—in Germany of all places?

Angst für Deutschland: Die Wahrheit über die AfD: wo sie herkommt, wer sie führt, wohin sie steuert [Angst for Germany: The Truth about the AfD: Where It Comes from, Who Leads It, Where It Is Headed]

by Melanie Amann

Finis Germania [The End of Germany]

by Rolf Peter Sieferle

December 7, 2017 issue

On Robert Silvers

Nineteen writers remember The New York Review’s editor.

May 11, 2017 issue

Is Europe Disintegrating?

Did the post-wall era end, sometime between the high point of 2005 and the low of today?

Europe Since 1989: A History

by Philipp Ther, translated from the German by Charlotte Hughes-Kreutzmüller

The Euro: How a Common Currency Threatens the Future of Europe

by Joseph E. Stiglitz

Europe Entrapped

by Claus Offe

The Euro Trap: On Bursting Bubbles, Budgets, and Beliefs

by Hans-Werner Sinn

Der Euro: Von der Friedensidee zum Zankapfel

by Hans-Werner Sinn

La fin du rêve européen

by François Heisbourg

What Is Populism?

by Jan-Werner Müller

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January 19, 2017 issue

Defying the Assassin’s Veto

Where the heckler’s veto says merely “I will shout you down,” the assassin’s version is “dare to express that and we will kill you.”

February 19, 2015 issue

Censored!

Censors at Work: How States Shaped Literature

by Robert Darnton

October 23, 2014 issue

From the Lighthouse: The World and the NYR After Fifty Years

November 7, 2013 issue

The New German Question

August 15, 2013 issue

‘Choices for an Uncrowned Queen’

The Roadmap

by Suragamika

Bones Will Crow: 15 Contemporary Burmese Poets

edited and translated from the Burmese by Ko Ko Thett and James Byrne

June 6, 2013 issue

Insult the King and… Go Directly to Jail

Truth on Trial in Thailand: Defamation, Treason, and Lèse-Majesté

by David Streckfuss

May 23, 2013 issue

India: Watch What You Say

April 25, 2013 issue

Freedom & Diversity: A Liberal Pentagram for Living Together

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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November 22, 2012 issue

Germans, More or Less

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

February 24, 2011 issue

Tony Judt (1948–2010)

September 30, 2010 issue

Tony Judt (1948–2010)

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.

August 20, 2010