History
-
Collective punishmentThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
| Published in
When pirates captured two British merchant ships, the Genoese of England were put on trial.
-
The dog who bit everyone
| Published in
Fifty-one years after his death, Pasolini’s vision of capitalism is even more urgent. A new play examines his unfinished masterpiece.
-
Processing evil
| Published in
The Nuremberg trials saw the birth of simultaneous interpretation. Hermann Göring especially manipulated this new system of translation for his own purposes. « Where Eichmann embodied the banality of evil,…
-
KRIEG
| Published in
Stefan Zweig, Marcel Proust, Thomas Mann & Romain Rolland: lessons from the trenches, for AI models
-
The vanished world
| Published in
Monsieur and Madame Louis Cahen d’Anvers never liked Renoir’s portrait of their eight-year-old daughter; it was Madame Cahen d’Anvers’s lover who chose Renoir over a more fashionable society portraitist; they…
-
« Exile is a form of action »
| Published in
The Bibliothèque Tourguenieff, the oldest Russian-language lending-library outside Russia, is on the second floor of an anonymous apartment building in the 5th arrondissement of Paris. The library was originally founded…
-
The West’s West and the rest’s West
| Published in
« To see the West as a process means that France was at one time westernized. Rome was westernized. Greece was westernized »
-
Saving the angel
| Published in
« This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps…
-
Open the drawer
| Published in
Visiting his hometown, Tartus, he opened a drawer of old family photographs.
-
What Sweden is, not
| Published in
« 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. »
-
Looted libraries
| Published in
« In both countries, it has left the government officials grappling with an extremely delicate and complex issue. Why is it so difficult to move forward? »
-
A woman in Tangiers: against erasure
| Published in
« I detect the head of a mannequin. Then the grains get too coarse. »