From Sign and Sight, the celebrated German theatre collective Rimini Protokoll gives centre stage to "experts on everyday life"; and a general who no longer wants to act: An interview with Gert Voss, one of the grand old men of German theatre. Expressionists at war: German images of the first world war continue to surprise. A review of Joschka Fischer and the Making of the Berlin Republic by Paul Hockenos. From TLS, a review of Graham Robb's The Discovery of France. L'hyperpresident: The dangers for a president of trying to do too much. An article on Nicolas Sarkozy and what American candidates might learn from France's reality show (and more and more and more). An interview with Arielle Dombasle, wife of Bernard-Henri Levy, on the Sarkozy-Bruni affair and stripping at 50.
