A fascinating journey through Europe's old towns (Warsaw, Wurzburg, Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Vilnius, Lublin, Prague, Frankfurt) exploring why we treasure them – but also what they hide about a continent's fraught history. Historic quarters in cit...

In a world that has English as its global language and rapidly advancing translation technology, it's easy to assume that the need to use more than one language will diminish – but Marek Kohn argues that plural language use is more important than eve...