Issue Eleven
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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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What do Europeans dream about?This article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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A new book by Wolfram Lotz could have the key to a shared European unconscious. « Now I will show you what it’s like to live without god. »
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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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Psychopaths and AI never know when to shut upThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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What Patrick Bateman, ChatGPT and Sara Machina have in common.
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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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Collective punishmentThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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When pirates captured two British merchant ships, the Genoese of England were put on trial.
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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.

