Sander Pleij
« Ça ira! There will be fire and enthusiasm in you »
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In search of Anthon van Rappard, Vincent van Gogh’s forgotten friend.
On Natalia Ginzburg’s Valentino
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On Natalia Ginzburg’s Valentino, newly translated: a Q&A with Alexander Chee.
« When I was silent… » — Interview with Sulaiman Addonia
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Stop! I am doing what they all do: presenting writer Sulaiman Addonia as one-who-has-suffered, because he grew up as a refugee. It is a problem of genre. Suffering has become an interviewer’s crutch.
Of Anders & Kreuzwendedich
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On two tales of racial metamorphosis, salted or sugared, one hundred years apart.
No pity
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The documentary When spring came to Bucha reaches beyond common representations of war and one-dimensional victimhood.