Reviews
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Lawyers of the world, unite?This article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
Law, it turns out, is capitalism’s operating system.
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The third-generation gapThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
Is international law dead, and if so, who killed it? Thomas Mann’s « Buddenbrooks » offers some insight.
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The man who told you soThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
As his book of collected journalism shows, Polish journalist, defense minister and foreign minister Radosław Sikorski saw it all coming.
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BELIEVE IT!This article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
Lee Miller brought surrealism to her war photography. She was humorous, generous and great fun. But « the stench of Dachau » never left her.
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The geography of safetyThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
Yugoslavia was Europe’s last open door for Jewish refugees fleeing Hitler. It was nobody’s dream.
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OnlyFascismThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
The libidinal thrill in fascism: on the German far-right’s sexy phantoms.
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Tits out for the motherland!This article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
Are French sex workers wittier? The prostitute as a marker of national sexual character.
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Who’s your neighbor now?This article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
A Peruvian farmer sued German energy company RWE claiming damages for flood risk to his home in the Andes.
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Exiled in TorontoThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
Yugoslav writer Daša Drndić refused to be a « good refugee ».
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Book | The ultimate process managerThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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 seems to revel in his role.
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Crafting a human text is like wrestling a wild animal
On Cécile Wajsbrot’s « Nevermore », Eva Meijer’s « Een woord voor », and the constant self-flagellation that comes with putting words to paper.
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The dog who bit everyoneThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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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What do Europeans dream about?This article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
A new book by Wolfram Lotz could have the key to a shared European unconscious. « Now I will show you what it’s like to live without god. »
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Psychopaths and AI never know when to shut upThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
What Patrick Bateman, ChatGPT and Sara Machina have in common.

