Amanda Hopkinson

Amanda Hopkinson is a writer and translator

Latest from Amanda Hopkinson

The Wanderings of Isaac André Gedalia review: ‘deeply affecting memoir of loss and grief’

Sylvie Weil’s unusual work is an interminable search of a resolution to life’s meaning, recalling the prototype of the wandering Jew of medieval lore

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The Wanderings of Isaac André Gedalia review: ‘deeply affecting memoir of loss and grief’

Rescued: (clockwise from top) Max Ernst, Andre Breton, Hannah Arendt, a Jacques Lipchitz sculpture, Jacques Lipchitz, Walter Benjamin, Lion Feuchtwanger, Marc Chagall and journalist Varian Gray

Marseille 1940 by Uwe Wittstock: one hack’s mission to save Jewish intelligentsia from the Nazis

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The non-Jewish Italian who saved Primo Levi

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The Venus of Salo review: A thriller with an unlikely hero from a dark period in Italian history

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The brilliant German-Jewish poet you have probably never heard of

Nelly Sachs is not as well known as she should be but now that her translated collected poems have won the Warwick Prize, she should win the acclaim she deserves

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December 19, 2024 14:01

The brilliant German-Jewish poet you have probably never heard of

The Viennese-born snapper who recorded social injustice in Britain

Edith Tudor Hart was an immensely talented documentary photographer whose work deserves to be better known. This biography-in-the-round will help

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November 8, 2024 13:55

The Empusium review: ‘hooch and misogyny at a gentlemen’s guesthouse’

Booker and Nobel Prize-winner Olga Tokarcuk’s latest work falls slightly short of her previous literary achievements

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November 1, 2024 16:06

The Empusium review: ‘hooch and misogyny at a gentlemen’s guesthouse’

Two Hours by Alba Arikha review: ‘I read it twice’

This is the only time I have finished a novel and then turned straight back to the first page

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August 1, 2024 11:24

Two Hours by Alba Arikha review: ‘I read it twice’

Meet the Cuban-Italian Simone de Beauvoir

Our critic relishes a novel about a formidable feminist

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April 17, 2024 17:33

Italians round up a suspected fascist outside a shop they've just bombed, in 1944

The Counterfeit Countess, book review: The Jew who saved thousands of Poles by posing as a Catholic

A new biography tells an extraordinary story of courage

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February 27, 2024 17:06

The Counterfeit Countess, book review: The Jew who saved thousands of Poles by posing as a Catholic

Glorious People by Sasha Salzmann, review: An in-depth study of friendship and family relations across two generations

Amanda Hopkinson is impressed by a novel about dislocation across the generations

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February 22, 2024 16:35

Glorious People by Sasha Salzmann, review: An in-depth study of friendship and family relations across two generations

The exodus of the German 'creative thinkers' as Hitler seized control of Germany

Study of the creative exodus from the Nazis in 1933 is a timeless reminder of what is lost when a regime denies its own writers their voice

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June 1, 2023 15:58

The exodus of the German 'creative thinkers' as Hitler seized control of Germany

After The Annex: The tragic sequel to Anne Frank’s Diary

An admirably detailed account of the teenage diarist’s last months

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March 2, 2023 18:10

After The Annex: The tragic sequel to Anne Frank’s Diary

Book review: The Only Woman in the Room: Golda Meir and her Path to Power - A pioneering woman leader but was she a feminist?

A highly original and enjoyable take on Israel’s first woman leader

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November 17, 2022 14:49

Book review: The Only Woman in the Room: Golda Meir and her Path to Power - A pioneering woman leader but was she a feminist?

Book review: The Last Colony - A long fight to allow a people to return home

Renowned international barrister Philippe Sands returns with the story of how the entire local population of the Chagos archipelago were uprooted by a 1960s lease deal between Britain and the US

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September 1, 2022 11:17

Chagossian families celebrate at the Groupe Refugies Chagos headquarters on February 25, 2019 the news that the United Nations' top court had told Britain to give up control of the Indian Ocean archipelago. - The UN's International Court of Justice in The Hague said in a legal opinion on February 25 that Britain had illegally split the islands from Mauritius before independence in 1968, after which the entire population of islanders was evicted. It is a major development in a decades-old row with Mauritius over an archipelago that is now home to a huge US airbase. The court's opinion is non-binding but carries heavy symbolic and political weight. (Photo by STRINGER / AFP) (Photo credit should read STRINGER/AFP via Getty Images)

Book review: Sisters in Resistance - The dictator’s daughter’s double life

Tilar J Mazzeo’s account of an Italian war story races along at a pace as relentless as that of actual events

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August 26, 2022 14:42

Book review: Sisters in Resistance - The dictator’s daughter’s double life

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Amanda Hopkinson

Latest from Amanda Hopkinson

The Wanderings of Isaac André Gedalia review: ‘deeply affecting memoir of loss and grief’

Marseille 1940 by Uwe Wittstock: one hack’s mission to save Jewish intelligentsia from the Nazis

The non-Jewish Italian who saved Primo Levi

The Venus of Salo review: A thriller with an unlikely hero from a dark period in Italian history

More from Amanda Hopkinson

The brilliant German-Jewish poet you have probably never heard of

The Viennese-born snapper who recorded social injustice in Britain

The Empusium review: ‘hooch and misogyny at a gentlemen’s guesthouse’

Two Hours by Alba Arikha review: ‘I read it twice’

Meet the Cuban-Italian Simone de Beauvoir

The Counterfeit Countess, book review: The Jew who saved thousands of Poles by posing as a Catholic

Glorious People by Sasha Salzmann, review: An in-depth study of friendship and family relations across two generations

The exodus of the German 'creative thinkers' as Hitler seized control of Germany

After The Annex: The tragic sequel to Anne Frank’s Diary

Book review: The Only Woman in the Room: Golda Meir and her Path to Power - A pioneering woman leader but was she a feminist?

Book review: The Last Colony - A long fight to allow a people to return home

Book review: Sisters in Resistance - The dictator’s daughter’s double life