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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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On Marjane Satrapi
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Some people remember 2000 as the year our computers DIDN’T all explode. I remember it as the year Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis appeared. Persepolis was a comic-book autobiographical novel, and its heroine was a…
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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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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.
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Magazine | Granta 174: Therapy
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ENGLAND — The Freud Museum. A loud merry gang of writers and friends crowded the rooms of the large London house where Dr. Freud settled and received his patients after…
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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.