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Topic: History
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The geography of safetyThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Yugoslavia was Europe’s last open door for Jewish refugees fleeing Hitler. It was nobody’s dream.
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Tits out for the motherland!This article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Are French sex workers wittier? The prostitute as a marker of national sexual character.
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A good interpreter is an invisible interpreter
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In the interpreting booths of the Yugoslavia Tribunal, neutrality was the job.
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Would you rather eat your friend or your enemy?
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This summer, when it’s been too hot to contemplate cooking any kind of meat, let alone human, Le Monde has been publishing a wonderful seven-part series on cannibalism by the science journalist…
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Orford Ness
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We stepped off the ferry — an open motorboat, with room for twelve passengers — onto the dock. We’d come for a day’s outing to Orford Ness on the Suffolk…
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The dog who bit everyoneThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Fifty-one years after his death, Pasolini’s vision of capitalism is even more urgent. A new play examines his unfinished masterpiece.
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Processing evilThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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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,…
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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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Collective punishmentThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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When pirates captured two British merchant ships, the Genoese of England were put on trial.
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The vanished world
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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…
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« Exile is a form of action »
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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…
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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 »