“If this is a man/the truce” is the best book I’ve read about the holocaust. Unflinchingly honest about the perpetrators and the victims and us in our warm houses.

Is it just me that hates the word “authentic”? When I was a kid I used to make authentic scale model kits of airplanes. I think of “authentic” as something having the appearance of the real thing while not necessarily being real. I always thought of Tony Blair as an “authentic” politician.