The Magic Lantern

Timothy Garton Ash is the author of ten books of "history of the present" which have explored many facets of Europe over the last half-century. He is Professor of European Studies, University of Oxford, Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He also writes a column on international affairs in the Guardian, which is widely syndicated, and is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books , amongst other journals. His books include The File: A Personal History , In Europe's Name: Germany and the Divided Continent and, most recently, Free Speech: Ten Principles for a Connected World . Awards he has received for his writing include the International Charlemagne Prize and the George Orwell Prize. The Magic Lantern, originally published in 1990, has been translated into twenty languages .