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Topic: Memoir
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Folie
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Parting (2025) Sebastian Haffner (W&N, translated by Michael Hofmann) We need to talk about it because a) Haffner is a first-rate writer; b) there’s been hardly any coverage, but believe…
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The man who told you soThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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As his book of collected journalism shows, Polish journalist, defense minister and foreign minister Radosław Sikorski saw it all coming.
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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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Neve in AgostoThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Snow in August: Winter as a disappearing cultural construct.
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Exiled in TorontoThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Yugoslav writer Daša Drndić refused to be a « good refugee ».
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Vova stopped killing the geeseThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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When the Russians occupied his village.
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A letter from
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« Even if you feel at home in time and space today, you know that you are already in mourning for the future loss of everything that is beautiful. This is…
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Carry The Prophet in your coat pocketThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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When you’re fifteen and you read Kahlil Gibran’s mystical bestseller for the first time.
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The shortest, longest bus tripThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Travelogue of a day in Minsk & an eternity at the EU border.
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Bethlehem, Jericho & a view of JerusalemThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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A Palestinian writer mentally retreats to three unreadable cities.
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Of wild men and horsesThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Pastoralism is the antidote to industrial farming. Kapka Kassabova treks with wild horses in one of Europe’s last wildernesses.