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Gone woke
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Sitting at the border of Oostende’s North Sea coast is a Napoleon-era hippodrome – normally home to horses and 90’s nostalgia bands from the surrounding Flemish countryside – except for one…
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Interview with Sofia Wadensjö Karén
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Across Europe radical voices are growing and cultivated in bubbles. Left, right, surprising new populist combinations: public broadcasters try to guard neutrality amidst this playfield. In Sweden, no less exposed…
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Beyond Bedlam
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In August 1843, the English painter Richard Dadd stabbed his father to death. The Egyptian sun god Osirus told him to. Dadd, an ambitious and accomplished young artist, had returned…
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Project a black planet: the art and culture of pan-Africa
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Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, born in London in 1977, is one of the best British artists alive today. Enigmatic, mischievous, troubling, her work comprises rich, densely scrabbled Old Master-like oil portraits of…
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Book | The ultimate process managerThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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On paper, a NATO Secretary General leads the most powerful military alliance in history. In reality, he’s the errand boy of the US President. Former Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte…
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Movie | FjordThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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ROMANIA — Cristian Mungiu’s Fjord, which will be released this autumn, won the Palme d’Or at Cannes. The film is based on a tabloid topic from 2017: a conservative religious…
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Festival | MessThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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SARAJEVO — Inda Omerovic Swanke is a television journalist living in Bosnia and Herzegovina. What’s it like moving back to Sarajevo, after thirty years away? It’s inspiring, it’s intense, it’s…
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Book | « Nothing fills the chest so completely as a last breath »This article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Lieke Marsman, who was the former Dutch Poet Laureate, died in early June of this year, aged 35.
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Books | The built and unbuilt worldThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Ines Weizman and Eyal Weizman are a couple. Each has just published a book that uses architecture to explore history, geopolitics, war.
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To what extent are we part of Mark Zuckerberg?
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I started reading « The future is for everyone; the path to a positive AI future », an essay by Mark Zuckerberg, the intellectual equal of Elon Musk, « We are fortunate…
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Cultural observation
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A friend of mine from Brussels visited me in Rīga last week. She had never been to this part of Europe before, so there was a lot of exploration to…