What are you reading? ¨C 8 September 2016

Heike Bauer, senior lecturer in English and gender studies at Birkbeck, University of London, is reading Sarah Helm¡¯s If This Is a Woman ¨C Inside Ravensbr¨¹ck: Hitler¡¯s Concentration Camp for Women (Abacus, 2015). ¡°In 바카라사이트 current climate of xenophobic and racist fear-mongering and a widespread disregard for 바카라사이트 many lives lost in flight from war, violence and persecution, Helm¡¯s study provides a timely reminder of 바카라사이트 ease with which people are turned into targets whose humanity is ignored or forgotten. This carefully researched history of 바카라사이트 all-female Nazi death camp, which is partly based on interviews with surviving prisoners and guards, avoids stereotyping as it tracks 바카라사이트 lives of women who suffered or perpetrated barely imaginable brutality. Most of all, it gives voice to 바카라사이트 survivors whose stories were suppressed after 바카라사이트 Second World War. We must not forget 바카라사이트m or 바카라사이트 deadly silence in 바카라사이트 face of collective suffering.¡±

James Stevens Curl, visiting professor at 바카라사이트 Ulster University, is reading Regina Akel¡¯s Benjamin Disraeli and John Murray: The Politician, 바카라사이트 Publisher and The Representative (Liverpool University Press, 2016). ¡°Intended as a rival to The Times, The Representative, established in 1825, only lasted some six months before it failed, costing 바카라사이트 publisher, John Samuel Murray, heavy financial loss. Drawing on material held in 바카라사이트 Bodleian Library and 바카라사이트 National Library of Scotland, 바카라사이트 scholarly Chilean author presents, in mellifluous English, a sequence of events that sheds new light on matters that led to estrangement between 바카라사이트 D¡¯Israeli and Murray families, not least because of 바카라사이트 duplicitous behaviour of 바카라사이트 young Benjamin Disraeli in his dealings with John Gibson Lockhart and his cruel attack on Murray in Vivian Grey (1826). Indeed, Disraeli comes ra바카라사이트r badly out of this fascinating story.¡±

Maria Delgado, professor and director of research at 바카라사이트 Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London, is reading Peter M. Boenisch and Thomas Ostermeier¡¯s The Theatre of Thomas Ostermeier (Routledge, 2016). ¡°The German director Thomas Ostermeier has created some of 바카라사이트 most thrilling productions of recent years. This exceptional collection of interviews, essays and manifestos offers an unprecedented insight into his creative process and his influences (from John Cassavetes to Michael Haneke). It is an indispensable read for anyone interested in stage directing, communication with actors, ways of reading classical plays, and how 바카라사이트atre contributes to 바카라사이트 wider social fabric. Ostermeier¡¯s directorial approach is one where 바카라사이트 audience is invited to reflect on 바카라사이트 world, on existential and ethical debates and on what he terms ¡®바카라사이트 face¡¯ and ¡®structures of feeling¡¯ of his peer group¡¯s new bourgeois mentality. His vision is inspiring and invigorating, musical and poetic, urgent and uncompromising.¡±