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  • Friday, 25 March, 2022
    Soviet writer Vasily Grossman and the ‘ruthless truth’ of war

    The clear-eyed chronicler of the darkest days of 20th-century history is startlingly relevant for the war in Ukraine

  • Monday, 23 September, 2019
    Gideon Rachman
    Life, fate and the assault on liberalism

    Both the right and the left are in thrall to identity politics

  • Friday, 10 May, 2019
    ReviewBiography and memoir
    Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century — poignant witness

    A stirring biography of one of the greatest chroniclers of the horrors of Nazism and Stalinism

  • Thursday, 10 May, 2018
    ReviewLife & Arts
    Life and Fate, Theatre Royal Haymarket, London — epic yet intimate

    Maly Drama Theatre of St Petersburg’s adaptation of Vasily Grossman’s sprawling novel is a remarkable achievement

  • Thursday, 26 May, 2016
    Book awards
    Translators step into the literary spotlight after Man Booker win

    Rising sales of non-English fiction have boosted the profile of the writers’ art

  • Friday, 27 June, 2014
    ReviewLife & Arts
    Stalingrad – DVD review

    A battle that changed the course of the second world war is reduced to video-game combat scenes

  • Friday, 5 July, 2013
    Life & Arts
    ‘Perfection is always simple’

    Vasily Grossman’s memoir on his stay in Armenia is the most personal of his works

  • Friday, 9 September, 2011
    ReviewLife & Arts
    The Road

    An excellent introduction to Vasily Grossman’s hauntingly powerful fiction and reportage

  • Saturday, 2 February, 2008
    Life & Arts
    Small Talk: Linda Grant
  • Thursday, 8 February, 2007
    Life & Arts
    Life and Fate, Théâtre MC93 Bobigny, Paris
  • Friday, 26 August, 2005
    ReviewBooks
    The ruthless truth
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