History
Curtain call
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An iron curtain makes a powerful canvas. Images from Sven Johne & Falk Haberkorn’s Aus Sicht des Archivs, documenting life in the former East Germany in the 1990s.
Moscow on the Med
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Two winters in Istanbul. If you are a holder of a Russian passport, there are few places in the Western hemisphere that you can go without a visa.
The size of longing
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On Jacob Israël de Haan’s Palestine and Arnold Zweig’s novel of post‑Zionist disillusionment
The case of the missing elephant
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On animal charisma and animal vengeance. What happens when an elephant goes missing a year after her death.
Forget your darlings
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On memory palaces, medieval and modern. A medieval woman’s life would not have taken the form of a straight line.
Visit the extractocene!
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The Eisenthür silver mine is real; the village below is entirely fictive.
Corrupted, yet intact
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On the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Europe of European integration.
How to people a landscape
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On Cyril Schäublin’s Unrueh (2022), cinema & scale. « No other film has so resized me. »
Doom is in the details
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Floods, hailstorms, plague, fire, children lost on a mountain or trapped for years in a ruined villa. On the stories of Adalbert Stifter.