Culture
The Balkans
Blame the rest
Recent Italian novels
Spirits of invention
A womanising gumshoe, anti-corporate satire, literary memories, men from Mars and KGB moles. These are all themes in current Italian fiction
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Political theory
Forgotten value
French literature
Packing it in
New fiction
Hand-and-I co-ordination
American politics
Borderline case
New fiction
Slenderly
Luxury goods
Dallas on the Arno
Faust, all 21 hours of it
Goethe himself considered his two-part “Faust” to be unstageable. Our reviewer went to Hanover to see if he was right