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A casa é sua
Belgian writer and TV journalist Annelies Beck writes to Turkish writer and thinker Ece Temelkuran – and to you.
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Lawyers of the world, unite?This article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
Law, it turns out, is capitalism’s operating system.
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The third-generation gapThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
Is international law dead, and if so, who killed it? Thomas Mann’s « Buddenbrooks » offers some insight.
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The man who told you so
As his book of collected journalism shows, Polish journalist, defense minister and foreign minister Radosław Sikorski saw it all coming.
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BELIEVE IT!
Lee Miller brought surrealism to her war photography. She was humorous, generous and great fun. But « the stench of Dachau » never left her.
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The geography of safetyThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
Yugoslavia was Europe’s last open door for Jewish refugees fleeing Hitler. It was nobody’s dream.
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Down to the wireThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
A visit to an Irish subsea cable landing station. Its engineers need to know all about scallop fishers and Russian saboteurs.
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Neve in Agosto
Snow in August: Winter as a disappearing cultural construct.
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The West’s West and the rest’s WestThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
« To see the West as a process means that France was at one time westernized. Rome was westernized. Greece was westernized »
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Saving the angelThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
« This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees…
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On being plagiarizedThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
« To write a biography about a writer like Kiš is a violation of the poetics of the very author it claims to revere. »
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Open the drawerThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
Visiting his hometown, Tartus, he opened a drawer of old family photographs.
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What Sweden is, notThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
« Once the most social democratic country in Europe, and then, in the 1990s, the most neoliberal one, Sweden now aims to become the most nationalist…
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The Passion of strangers: a philosophy of friendshipThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
Friendship is the only stable social relationship for which « paperwork » has not been invented.
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« Friendship is revolutionary » — Interview with Marina GarcésThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
« I think reimagining relationships of distance and proximity is interesting in order to go beyond romantic ideas of neighbors. »
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Looted librariesThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
« In both countries, it has left the government officials grappling with an extremely delicate and complex issue. Why is it so difficult to move forward? »
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Issue Twelve