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What Patrick Bateman, ChatGPT and Sara Machina have in common.
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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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The dog who bit everyone
Fifty-one years after his death, Pasolini’s vision of capitalism is even more urgent. A new play examines his unfinished masterpiece.
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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 evil
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,…
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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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When you’re fifteen and you read Kahlil Gibran’s mystical bestseller for the first time.
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« Time is a child playing draughts; the kingship is a child’s. »
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I was reminded of Muybridge’s moving pictures while looking at the serial attempts of Ambrogio Lorenzetti (d. 1348/49) at rendering the invisible visible.
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Talk Proto-Indo-European to me, darling
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Maria Theresa, Habsburg empress, created the modern European state. To ponder her reign is to ask what the Enlightenment was — and is. Be careful…
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