Ian Thomson

A thought-provoking work of ‘moral atonement’ and ‘comparative redemption’

Susan Neiman’s Learning from the Germans is a harsh lesson for her native American South

issue 12 October 2019
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  • Learning from the Germans: Confronting Race and the Memory of Evil

    Susan Neiman

    Allen Lane, pp. 415, £20

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