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Library: Potpourri
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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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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.
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Book | La fine del mondo
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ITALY — An eighty-year-old communist running errands in a tracksuit in an upper-middle-class neighborhood — Francesco Pecoraro’s fictional avatar is a thoughtful, sad, sweet, engaged, hypochondriac boomer.
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Magazine | Granta 174: Therapy
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ENGLAND — The Freud Museum. A loud merry gang of writers and friends crowded the rooms of the large London house where Dr. Freud settled and received his patients after…
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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.