Rebels with a cause

Sarah Bakewell, author of How to Live, or a Life of Montaigne, and At the Existentialist Cafe, tells her Munich audience why existentialism is the rock-and-roll side of philosophy AT THE RISK of looking like the PR for Munich’s Literaturhaus, here’s another report on...

‘The Cassandras in the world are never asleep’

Nigerian Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka – playwright, poet, ‘anatomist of the workings of power’ – shows a Munich audience he is still well able to pounce THE BUZZ in the lecture hall in the Literaturhaus München becomes more subdued as the minutes tick by –...