Allegations of untruth over The Salt Path raise questions of what we expect from truth in memoir, in this age of ‘fake news’. What is the contract with the reader?
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So many of our artistic geniuses have complicated legacies. What do we do with work we love by artists whose behaviour is more difficult to admire?
If Rosa Luxemburg and her comrades had been successful with their German revolution in 1919, history would most probably have taken a very different course, avoiding the rise of fascism in Europe.
