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Processing evil
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Peter Frederick Matthews
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 geese
When the Russians occupied his village.
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The cudgellers’ dilemma
What Goya’s Black Paintings can tell us about current Spanish climate struggles.
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The pain-laden rhyme
An excerpt from a new biography on the life and poetry of Paul Celan.
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