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Topic: Europe
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The bar across the street
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Last week, I went every morning for breakfast to the perfect bar. You stood at the counter for your shot of coffee; the other customers all greeted the owner by…
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Shepherds of Europe!
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They’d put me on a float. It was midnight. A tractor hauled me and some twenty-five villagers into the woods. We were going to cut down a tree. I’d had…
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Gone woke
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Sitting at the border of Oostende’s North Sea coast is a Napoleon-era hippodrome – normally home to horses and 90’s nostalgia bands from the surrounding Flemish countryside – except for one…
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Death will comeThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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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? »
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V’s posthumous victoryThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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How the wrongful death of an orphan in Romania paved the way for a monumental climate change decision.
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Festival | MessThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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KRIEGThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Stefan Zweig, Marcel Proust, Thomas Mann & Romain Rolland: lessons from the trenches, for AI models
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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.
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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. »
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Feeling political togetherThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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A four-hour journey into populist algorithms, and a soup that never got made.
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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…