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Crisis as Freedom: Muhammad Iqbal and Walter Benjamin
What can two early-20th-century thinkers teach us about our pandemic “interregnum”?
Around the World
"For a long time now I haven't been I."
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
This Unhallowed Ground
Winthrop Rodgers travels to Kurdistan’s historic battlefields and reflects on our relationship to these conflict zones.
Second Acts: Two Translations of Giovanni Pascoli
Lisa Russ Spaar reads two new translations of the Italian poet Giovanni Pascoli, "Selected Poems of Giovanni Pascoli" and "Last Dream."
Under the Language: A Conversation with Pierre Joris on Paul Celan
David Brazil interviews Pierre Joris about his new collection of Paul Celan writings, “Memory Rose into Threshold Speech.”
A Combustible Compound: On Paul Hanebrink’s “A Specter Haunting Europe” and Elissa Bemporad’s “Legacy of Blood”
On “A Specter Haunting Europe: The Myth of Judeo-Bolshevism” and “Legacy of Blood: Jews, Pogroms, and Ritual Murder in the Lands of the Soviets.”
Voiceless in Vienna
A new Slovenian novel chronicles the exploits of Nada, daughter of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch.
On Crying for Sports Heroes
What’s the meaning of our grief for sports heroes — especially those, like Maradona, well known for their personal failings?
A Galaxy of Monuments
Jill Schary Robinson visits “City of Immortals: Père-Lachaise Cemetery, Paris,” the recently published book by Carolyn Campbell.
Cultural Fronts
A well-researched and very useful study of the Soviet Union’s cultural diplomacy.
Hybrid Authoritarianism
What Viktor Orbán’s Hungary has to teach us about Donald Trump’s America.
How to Read an Artichoke: On George Saunders’s “A Swim in a Pond in the Rain”
Robert Allen Papinchak sits in on the master class of “A Swim in a Pond in the Rain” by George Saunders.
Family Fault Lines: On Nadia Owusu’s “Aftershocks”
A new memoir about growing up on uncertain and shifting ground.
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