War
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« We are the winners of Eurovision »
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Lithuania has lost the Eurovision Song Contest thirty times.
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The size of longing
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On Jacob Israël de Haan’s Palestine and Arnold Zweig’s novel of post‑Zionist disillusionment
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Europe disenchanted
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A broad cast of characters who almost all speak to a solitary woe. This is Europe?
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Corrupted, yet intact
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On the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Europe of European integration.
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An axe to grind should make you sharper
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Forensic Architecture charts state-organized crimes, genocide and other disasters in three dimensions. « Flat maps can’t convey the politics of water and shit. »
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The pulverization of memory
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Write your memoir in a hostile tongue. On Marina Jarre, from Latvia to Italy and back.
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The invention of austerity
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Dramatic economic inflations have punctuated twentieth-century political history. Is austerity a class strategy?
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No man’s land
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On Edda Mussolini & fashionable fascism. Can a woman be dangerous yet powerless?
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WHOOOO
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A story about a lonely railway guard on a desolate steppe. « In the cursed August of 1991 the radio informed Kasatonov that there was a state of emergency in the capital. Then it fell silent, as if the receiver had broken. »
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When the world makes rags of us
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He spoke of painting like a starving man speaks of food. On Józef Czapski, Memories of Starobielsk and the art of observation.
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Flags & bones
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On Curzio Malaparte’s Europe — and ours. The midcentury novelist read anew, on war’s aftermath and transatlantic romance. What was, or is, « postwar Europe », anyway?