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Topic: Europe

  • Death will come

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    A newly translated story by the Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-1973). « P.S. Did you know that Uncle Karl died ten days ago of stomach cancer? »

  • V’s posthumous victory

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    How the wrongful death of an orphan in Romania paved the way for a monumental climate change decision.

  • Festival | Mess

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    SARAJEVO — Inda Omerovic Swanke is a television journalist living in Bosnia and Herzegovina. What’s it like moving back to Sarajevo, after thirty years away? It’s inspiring, it’s intense, it’s…

  • Cultural observation

    Cultural observation

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    A friend of mine from Brussels visited me in Rīga last week. She had never been to this part of Europe before, so there was a lot of exploration to…

  • The Berlin Review’s review

    The Berlin Review’s review

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    The printed editions of Berlin Review, Zeitschrift für Bücher und Ideen, are a feast (three times a year in print, eight online). About half the articles are in German and you’re constantly…

  • KRIEG

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    Stefan Zweig, Marcel Proust, Thomas Mann & Romain Rolland: lessons from the trenches, for AI models

  • What do Europeans dream about?

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    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. »

  • Feeling political together

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    A four-hour journey into populist algorithms, and a soup that never got made.

  • On the Hungarian elections

    On the Hungarian elections

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    « Last night didn’t just feel like an election victory, there was something of 1989 about it, the way people were dancing on the roofs of bus stops, forming a…

  • The West’s West and the rest’s West

    The West’s West and the rest’s West

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    « To see the West as a process means that France was at one time westernized. Rome was westernized. Greece was westernized »

  • What Sweden is, not

    What Sweden is, not

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    « Once the most social democratic country in Europe, and then, in the 1990s, the most neoliberal one, Sweden now aims to become the most nationalist one. »

  • The sea between

    The sea between

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    « In order to survive amidst this bleak existence, the Mediterranean people established two distinct strategies: hopelessness or salvation. Some embraced hopelessness as the best way to approach the absurd condition…