Author Archives: Hugh Barnes

The Red Shoes

Propaganda for art

Strange Way of Life

Almodóvar’s queer Western

Babyn Yar

The story of Ukraine’s Holocaust – and an uncensored masterpiece

Borderland gothic

Pamfir

Holidays in hell

In the Malcolm Archives

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Russian anti-war poems

Disbelief review

In Bakhmut

The Boy Looked at Patti

A Book of Days by Patti Smith

Photo by Steven Sebring

The Romantic

William Boyd’s ‘cut-price Byron substitute’