Journalism

  • Jesus in the pines

    Jesus in the pines

    Refugees and border guards in the Białowieża Forest. Scenes of violence play out behind a thick cover of trees, in a remote corner of Poland.

  • Europe disenchanted

    Europe disenchanted

    A broad cast of characters who almost all speak to a solitary woe. This is Europe?

  • Flags & bones

    Flags & bones

    On Curzio Malaparte’s Europe — and ours. The midcentury novelist read anew, on war’s aftermath and transatlantic romance. What was, or is, « postwar Europe », anyway?

  • Optimize this headline for Google*

    Optimize this headline for Google*

    Google’s rise to dominance can seem inevitable, and its power over publishers monolithic. Yet Google’s wanton disruption of publishing resembles evolution more than intelligent design. Journalists, publishers, regulators, and scholars are left grappling with our new, random god.

  • Football is not football

    Football is not football

    How do literary movements arise? About thirty years ago, I watched one emerge out of nothing: the subgenre of « literary » football books and magazines. Not exactly the birth of modernism, but it still taught me something about how cultural transmission works within Europe.

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