Why aren’t Isaac Bashevis Singer’s gangster novels published in English?
King Leopold & Sultan Abdülhamid — a tale of two monarchs. «I’ve come to see them as twins of a kind: monarchs in bourgeois garb.»
The Chinese Communist Party embraces the sci-fi hit The Three Body Problem.
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Ripley and the enduring story of the white guy getting away with it. « Even with murder. Especially with murder! »
Photos of a Thai village that, due to coastal erosion, is slowly but surely giving way to the sea.
A review of Hangman: A Novel by Maya Binyam. «Returning home rests … as the thematic cornerstone of African and African-diasporic literature.»
Pastoralism is the antidote to industrial farming. Kapka Kassabova treks with wild horses in one of Europe’s last wildernesses.
Paul Simon’s Graceland & country music’s global history. «The idea of anti-apartheid country music is counter-intuitive but profound.»
Pretty much every European country has a satirical news site – all in the tradition of American example The Onion.
On the sanatoriums of Olga Tokarczuk’s The Empusium and Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain.
Modern Zionism’s founding ideology, in which diaspora Jews would be redeemed by working the soil, has long ceded to neoliberalism’s imperatives
Filled to the brim with delights: European news satire, the Chinese Communist Party’s favorite sci-fi series, fiction by Alba de Céspedes and Sergei Lebedev, reviews of novels by Olga Tokarczuk and Rachel Kushner, Yiddish gangster novels, anti-apartheid country music, hard-boiled Bulgarian horsemen and much, much more.
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A broad cast of characters who almost all speak to a solitary woe. This is Europe?
Online, pigeon water is what we swim in and slather on ourselves.
The Eisenthür silver mine is real; the village below is entirely fictive.
On the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Europe of European integration.
Mission: Impossible and Eurocentric stunts, from Hollywood to Hong Kong. What does an action movie want to be?
We’ve built it; now come live in it.
Or, the art of the error
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