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The pulverization of memoryThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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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 austerityThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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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 landThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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On Edda Mussolini & fashionable fascism. Can a woman be dangerous yet powerless?
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WHOOOOThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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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…
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When the world makes rags of usThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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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 & bonesThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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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?
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Of human children & language children
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The first word I ever wrote was stsikukha: « pisser ». This is how my nanny Frosya called me to my face. On poetry and pathos in a bastard tongue.
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Skinned aliveThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Imagine your therapist assigned you to write your autobiography, after which you decided you were cured, so your therapist published it as revenge. Zeno’s Conscience turns 99.
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No pityThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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The documentary When spring came to Bucha reaches beyond common representations of war and one-dimensional victimhood.
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Planes, tanks & automobilesThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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You could tell the US army had arrived because the local garages had sold out of whiskey. Old maps, new wars & vanishing memories along the Polish-Ukrainian border.
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What is a pillar?This article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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In 2010, OMA was invited to take part in a competition for the Damascus National Museum. It was part of a concerted effort toward a political « rapprochement » with Bashar al-Assad.…
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On paths not takenThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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« Genocide Studies » is a house with many rooms. It accommodates and even encourages a broadening of its central concept. And like all academic fields, it presumes its object…