Book review – memoir

Portrait of a Guardian music critic

8 February 2014 9:00 am

We critics seldom write our memoirs, perhaps because we skulk away our lives in dark corners, avoiding the public gaze,…

Germaine Greer's mad, passionate quest to heal Australia

8 February 2014 9:00 am

Like an old woman in a fairy story, Germaine Greer, now in her late seventies, has taken to lurking in…

What family life — and love — was like in East Germany

7 December 2013 9:00 am

Historians still argue over whether the regime of the GDR can be called a totalitarian one. Some say that the…