Timothy Garton Ash
Timothy Garton Ash is the author of ten books of political writing which have charted the transformation of Europe over the last half-century. He is Professor of European Studies in the University of Oxford, Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at St Antony’s College, Oxford and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. His essays appear regularly in the New York Review of Books and he writes a weekly column in the Guardian which is widely syndicated in Europe, Asia and the Americas. He also contributes to the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal. In 2006, he was awarded the George Orwell Prize for political writing. His books include The Polish Revolution, The Uses of Adversity and We the People, all published by Granta Books.
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Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Golden Kids Comeback
Timothy Garton Ash
'Hips. Some never have them. Most have them but lose them. A few have them and keep them.'
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
The Visit
Timothy Garton Ash
‘His language is a little stiff, polit-bureaucratic, but very far from being just ideological gobbledygook. Through it come glimpses of a real political intelligence, a man who knows about power.’
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Warsaw Notebook
Timothy Garton Ash
‘Underground groups are called ‘structures’. Some people offer friends the service of their ‘structures’. This makes them important. Then it turns out the structures don't exist.’
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Under Eastern Eyes
Timothy Garton Ash
‘They sit around, feet in slippers, drinking wine and swapping jokes about Chernobyl. They have just produced the best journal of new writing in Czechoslovakia. It took about twenty minutes.’
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Notes from East Germany
Timothy Garton Ash
‘Like previous re-settlers, the East Germans now living in the West produced works in what I call the ‘Owl of Minerva’ school of literature. As the Owl of Minerva flies at dusk, so they, in flight from the system, made their reckoning with it.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 11
A Letter
Sławomir Mrożek
‘I draw your attention to football. The practice of this game threatens the basis of our very way of life.’