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  • 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. »

  • Psychopaths and AI never know when to shut up

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

  • The dog who bit everyone

    The dog who bit everyone

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    Fifty-one years after his death, Pasolini’s vision of capitalism is even more urgent. A new play examines his unfinished masterpiece.

  • Collective punishment

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

  • A kiss like a fish in the mouth

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    My schoolgirl passion for Julio Cortázar brings me to a Montparnasse grave with one husband and two wives.

  • Processing evil

    Processing evil

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    The Nuremberg trials saw the birth of simultaneous interpretation. Hermann Göring especially manipulated this new system of translation for his own purposes. « Where Eichmann embodied the banality of evil,…

  • KRIEG

    KRIEG

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

  • Vova stopped killing the geese

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    When the Russians occupied his village.

  • Curing my lying

    Curing my lying

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    An excerpt from the novel Attention-Seeking Behaviour (Peninsula Press, 2026) by Aea Varfis-van Warmelo. « My being able to talk was most of the problem in the first place. »

  • The cudgellers’ dilemma

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    What Goya’s Black Paintings can tell us about current Spanish climate struggles.

  • The death of an unknown woman

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    A story about falling, translated by Elina Alter.

  • 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.