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Down to the wireThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
A visit to an Irish subsea cable landing station. Its engineers need to know all about scallop fishers and Russian saboteurs.
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A good interpreter is an invisible interpreterThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
In the interpreting booths of the Yugoslavia Tribunal, neutrality was the job. Even for those translators whose lives had been ruined by the men whose words they were rendering.
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Ink, paper, décentrementThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
The ERB’s designer on the passion and philosophy of making books.
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Listening practiceThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
When everyone can make themselves heard, who still cares to listen? Miriam Rasch offers a philosophical and personal exploration of listening as an ethics.
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A kiss like a fish in the mouthThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
My schoolgirl passion for Julio Cortázar brings me to a Montparnasse grave with one husband and two wives.
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Processing evilThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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, Göring stood for something like its virtuosity. »
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Vova stopped killing the geeseThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
When the Russians occupied his village.
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The cudgellers’ dilemmaThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
What Goya’s Black Paintings can tell us about current Spanish climate struggles.
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Collective punishmentThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
When pirates captured two British merchant ships, the Genoese of England were put on trial.
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Feeling political togetherThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
A four-hour journey into populist algorithms, and a soup that never got made.
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Saving the angel
« This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. »
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On being plagiarized
« To write a biography about a writer like Kiš is a violation of the poetics of the very author it claims to revere. »
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The Passion of strangers: a philosophy of friendship
Friendship is the only stable social relationship for which « paperwork » has not been invented.
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Looted libraries
« In both countries, it has left the government officials grappling with an extremely delicate and complex issue. Why is it so difficult to move forward? »
