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Crafting a human text is like wrestling a wild animal
On Cécile Wajsbrot’s « Nevermore », Eva Meijer’s « Een woord voor », and the constant self-flagellation that comes with putting words to paper.
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The man who told you soThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
As his book of collected journalism shows, Polish journalist, defense minister and foreign minister Radosław Sikorski saw it all coming.
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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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BELIEVE IT!This article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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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OnlyFascismThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
The libidinal thrill in fascism: on the German far-right’s sexy phantoms.
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Neve in AgostoThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
Snow in August: Winter as a disappearing cultural construct.
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Are French sex workers wittier? The prostitute as a marker of national sexual character.
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I was reminded of Muybridge’s moving pictures while looking at the serial attempts of Ambrogio Lorenzetti (d. 1348/49) at rendering the invisible visible.
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