A review of In Europe: travels through the twentieth century. A review of The Berlin Wall: A World Divided, 1961-1989 by Frederick Taylor.  Vaclav Havel writes three roles for himself: A review of To the Castle and Back. As Rutka Laskier awaited the final horrors of the Holocaust in the Bedzin ghetto of Poland in 1943, she committed her arresting thoughts to a diary. In his final book before he died earlier this year, Ryszard Kapuscinski hails his inspiration and travelling companion Herodotus as a "vivacious, fascinated, unflagging nomad". There is no more fitting description for Poland's celebrated foreign correspondent himself, says Margaret Atwood; and more on Travels With Herodotus. Blind exorcism in Poland: Ryszard Kapuscinski, the prize-crowned reporter who died this year, is the latest of a string of Polish

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