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The Footnotes
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The ERB is reading the 2026 World Cup and offering daily dispatches, in collaboration with Hazar Deniz Eker and Sander Pleij (one is losing his belief in football, and the…
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El Camino always provides
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Day 1 Two coffees in and the day has just begun. I’m on a plane to Portugal and everybody is basically dressed like me: the outdoor-wear. The man sitting next…
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Series | Portobello
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ITALY — The six-episode television series Portobello is the latest work by the great Italian filmmaker Marco Bellocchio.
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Documentary | 2m²
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TURKEY/BELGIUM — If a Turkish migrant dies in Belgium, where and how should their loved ones visit them?
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Books | Interview Elina Alter
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RUSSIA IN EXILE — A Q&A with the translator and editor, who recommends Russian writers-in-exile to read.
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Book | Les Lumières sombres
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FRANCE — Arnaud Miranda’s Les Lumières sombres is a book about the most radical challenge to liberal democracy since Communism.
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Book & film | Housing!
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SPAIN — Home and homelessness are at the center of Spanish public anxiety. This has created a new branch of literature — for the moment, mostly non-fiction.
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Books | Butchers!
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THE LONDON BOOK FAIR — A new trend I noticed at the London Book Fair: young European novelists writing about butchers and the meat industry.
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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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Book | White Moss
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THE ARCTIC CIRCLE — An interview with Irina Sadovina, who recently translated a novel set in a nomadic Indigenous Nenets community in Northern Siberia, by Nenets writer Anna Nerkagi.
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Book | La fine del mondo
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ITALY — An eighty-year-old communist running errands in a tracksuit in an upper-middle-class neighborhood — Francesco Pecoraro’s fictional avatar is a thoughtful, sad, sweet, engaged, hypochondriac boomer.