Sophie Williams-Dunning explores the latest rift in France and Britain’s historically fraught relationship, but argues that ultimately the two countries would do well to put their differences to one side.

In his column ‘Between Wars, Between Identities’, Sam Rubinstein explores key issues of early twentieth-century Ashkenazi Jewish poetry, including antisemitism in Eastern Europe prior to the Holocaust, literary debates over the use of local vernaculars in Jewish poetry and expression, and Jewish nationalism and the beginnings of the Zionist movement. In this first column, he takes a look at the divide in Polish Jewish literary circles over language choice, and how key actors reconciled language with their evolving identities.

Anna Whitehead explores Vienna, Erinnerungskultur and The Lost Café Schindler.

Anatoly Grablevsky explores the Russian Civil War’s lasting impact on the national consciousness in the first installment of his column ‘The Remains of the Red Day’.

‘Tongue Tied’ is a short tour through Europe via some of its most at-risk languages. In a series of four articles, Columnist Kieran McGreevy will examine four languages from across the corners of Europe, with the aim of showing what has led these languages to the brink of extinction (and sometimes back), by untying the history of the people, the linguistics of the language itself, and the efforts being made to keep these tongues alive. In the first instalment, Kieran looks at Occitan, its history, features, and efforts for revitalisation.

Daphne Pleming reviews Maria Schrader’s film Ich bin dein Mensch which subverts the typical rom-com genre through the use of robots.

Louis Brettkelly explores the corruption of former French President, Nicolas Sarkozy and analyses the potentially irreparable damage caused to the Republican's presidential hopes.

French Editor Margaux Emmanuel reviews Agnès Varda’s documentary The Beaches of Agnès (2008)