Around the World

"For a long time now I haven't been I."

— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

Reconstructing the Village of the Divino Salvador
Our writer attends the Festival of El Salvador del Mundo and finds memories of a war that never really ended.
Alex ShamsOct 31, 2017
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- Politics
Growing Up, East of Europe
Masha Shpolberg on three festival films from Russia, Turkey, and Romania.
Masha ShpolbergOct 30, 2017
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- Film
“Don’t We Know Our Own Minds?”: A Rediscovered Russian Woman Writer of the 19th Century
Yelena Furman on “City Folk and Country Folk,” a rediscovered novel by the 19th-century Russian writer Sofia Khvoshchinskaya.
Yelena FurmanOct 24, 2017
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- Fiction
The Party’s Over: Looking Back on Communism
Patrick Iber reviews two new books on communism and its aftermath.
Patrick IberOct 24, 2017
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- History
We Can’t Stem the Tide of Language Death
Laura McPherson on the importance of documenting endangered languages before they vanish.
Laura McPhersonOct 19, 2017
How Do We Proceed with Our Own Internal Conflict?: On the Translation of Mihail Sebastian’s “For Two Thousand Years”
Julia Elsky reviews Mihail Sebastian's 1934 novel "For Two Thousand Years."
Julia ElskyOct 18, 2017
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- Fiction
Paving Paradise: The Beauty and Terror of Nicola Lagioia’s “Ferocity”
Deborah E. Kennedy reviews Nicola Lagioia's Strega Prize–winning novel "Ferocity."
Deborah E. KennedyOct 18, 2017
- Around the World
- Fiction
The Adventure of the Immobile Journey: On the Eduardo Lalo Novels “Uselessness” and “Simone”
Christina Soto van der Plas on two recent novels by Puerto Rican writer Eduardo Lalo, "Uselessness" and "Simone."
Christina Soto van der PlasOct 17, 2017
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- Fiction
The Ins and Outs of Europe’s Deep Establishment
Stan Persky looks at Yanis Varoufakis's "Adults in the Room," the memoir of Varoufakis's brief tenure as Greece’s minister of finance in 2015.
Stan PerskyOct 17, 2017
On Anna Maria Maiolino’s “Entrevidas” (Saturday, September 16, 2017)
Martin Harries on a recent performance of Anna Maria Maiolino's "Entrevidas," which will be performed again on November 5.
Martin HarriesOct 16, 2017
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- Art & Architecture
Dystopian Surrealism for Our Times: Karin Tidbeck’s “Amatka”
Karin Tidbeck’s surrealist novel engages with the inertia of European democratic socialism and imagines a more liberated posthuman condition.
Irene MorrisonOct 14, 2017
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- SF
A Relic of Apartheid: Daniel Magaziner’s History of Art Education in South Africa
Alex Lichtenstein reviews Daniel Magaziner's "The Art of Life in South Africa."
Alex LichtensteinOct 12, 2017
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- Art & Architecture

Around the World

"For a long time now I haven't been I."— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

"For a long time now I haven't been I."

— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet