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Author: Sander Pleij
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Herbarium
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Rosa Luxemburg’s Herbarium Claudia Horn (OR Books, 2026) Rosa Luxemburg was a theorist, politician and revolutionary murdered in Berlin on 15 January 1919, together with her compatriot Karl Liebknecht. She…
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Looting and desire
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France is now officially a country of malcontents. To make sense of the chaos of conflicting interests and threats, I read and listened to dozens of interpretations, but none added…
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Folie
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Parting (2025) Sebastian Haffner (W&N, translated by Michael Hofmann) The handwritten manuscript of Abschied spent more than ninety years waiting in a desk drawer. It was published last year in…
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Shepherds of Europe!
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They’d put me on a float. It was midnight. A tractor hauled me and some twenty-five villagers into the woods. We were going to cut down a tree. I’d had…
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Interview with Sofia Wadensjö Karén
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Across Europe radical voices are growing and cultivated in bubbles. Left, right, surprising new populist combinations: public broadcasters try to guard neutrality amidst this playfield. In Sweden, no less exposed…
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To what extent are we part of Mark Zuckerberg?
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I started reading « The future is for everyone; the path to a positive AI future », an essay by Mark Zuckerberg, the intellectual equal of Elon Musk, « We are fortunate…
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Museum for one
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I have learned what artistic freedom is. It happened in a secret museum somewhere in Sweden. I had to wade through tall grass toward a windowless barn, painted in faluröd, the…
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The cartography of everything wrong
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So there I am, in a museum in a town that in 150 years has evolved from a community of farmers to an artists’ colony, then to a posh village,…
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The Berlin Review’s review
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The printed editions of Berlin Review, Zeitschrift für Bücher und Ideen, are a feast (three times a year in print, eight online). About half the articles are in German and you’re constantly…
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Book | The Ice Prophet
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THE NETHERLANDS — While reading this new book about « Iceman » Wim Hof, one scene lodged itself most prominently in my mind: the one in which he goes to Amsterdam’s Vondelpark…
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Stefan Zweig, Marcel Proust, Thomas Mann & Romain Rolland: lessons from the trenches, for AI models