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Issue Eleven

  • KRIEG

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    Stefan Zweig, Marcel Proust, Thomas Mann & Romain Rolland: lessons from the trenches, for AI models

  • The pain-laden rhyme

    The pain-laden rhyme

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    An excerpt from a new biography on the life and poetry of Paul Celan.

  • Vova stopped killing the geese

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    When the Russians occupied his village.

  • A story of flesh

    A story of flesh

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    Excerpt from All Flesh (Pushkin Press, 2026), translated from the French by Jeffrey Zuckerman.

  • Fathers  & Sons

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    For some of the men in Poshtarov’s photo series, it was the first time they held hands in years – even decades.

  • Series | Portobello

    Series | Portobello

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    ITALY — The six-episode television series Portobello is the latest work by the great Italian filmmaker Marco Bellocchio.

  • What do Europeans dream about?

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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. »

  • Documentary | 2m² 

    Documentary | 2m² 

    TURKEY/BELGIUM — If a Turkish migrant dies in Belgium, where and how should their loved ones visit them?

  • Psychopaths and AI never know when to shut up

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    What Patrick Bateman, ChatGPT and Sara Machina have in common.

  • Books | Interview Elina Alter

    Books | Interview Elina Alter

    RUSSIA IN EXILE — A Q&A with the translator and editor, who recommends Russian writers-in-exile to read.

  • Collective punishment

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    When pirates captured two British merchant ships, the Genoese of England were put on trial.

  • Book | Les Lumières sombres 

    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.