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  • The dog who bit everyone

    The dog who bit everyone

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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.

  • Vova stopped killing the geese

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    When the Russians occupied his village.

  • Book | Les Lumières sombres 

    Book | Les Lumières sombres 

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    FRANCE — Arnaud Miranda’s Les Lumières sombres is a book about the most radical challenge to liberal democracy since Communism.

  • Book & film | Housing! 

    Book & film | Housing! 

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    SPAIN — Home and homelessness are at the center of Spanish public anxiety. This has created a new branch of literature — for the moment, mostly non-fiction.

  • Feeling political together

    Feeling political together

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

  • 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. »

  • Looted libraries

    Looted libraries

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    « 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 letter from

    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…

  • ~ Potpourri: France

    ~ Potpourri: France

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    « Chaos is no longer the weapon of the rebels but the banner of those in power. »

  • Glory to the rails

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    Millions of Ukrainians left the country during the first weeks of the invasion; four million were evacuated by train, including a million children. Thousands of dogs, cats and other pets,…

  • Texting with … Ece Temelkuran (2)

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    « We are not aware of how defeated we are as intellectuals. »

  • Queen of the night

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    Maria Theresa, Habsburg empress, created the modern European state. To ponder her reign is to ask what the Enlightenment was — and is. Be careful with your nostalgias.