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  • OnlyFascism

    The libidinal thrill in fascism: on the German far-right’s sexy phantoms.


  • Listening practice

    When everyone can make themselves heard, who still cares to listen? Miriam Rasch offers a philosophical and personal exploration of listening as an ethics.


  • A casa é sua

    Belgian writer and TV journalist Annelies Beck writes to Turkish writer and thinker Ece Temelkuran – and to you.


  • 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.


  • 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.


  • 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.


  • 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.


  • 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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  • 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 »


  • Eight hours don’t make a dayThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.

    A story about the art of disappearance


  • 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…


  • 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. »


  • 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.


  • 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…


  • 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.


  • « 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. »


  • 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? »