History shows the crimes of empire were later mirrored on European soil. Dehumanisation and militarised terror both seem normalised now
It’s clear what Israel’s western-facilitated genocide has done t…
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Hannah Arendt
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4 months ago
A critique of pure stupidity: understanding Trump 2.0 ⊖⊖
If the first term of Donald Trump provoked anxiety over the fate of objective knowledge, the second has led to claims we live in a world-historical age of stupid, accelerated by big tech. But might t…
8 months ago
‘Space travel is queer’: the unstoppable film-maker skewering Bezos and Musk’s macho fantasies ○
She founded Nasa’s orchestra and has bounced heartbeats off the moon. Now Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stépanian has made a hilarious film taking issue with the tech bros’ dreams of celestial conquest
‘She’s a gr…
9 months ago
The Book of Records by Madeleine Thien review – a dazzling fable of migration ○
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The adventures of great voyagers echo across centuries as a father and daughter flee from flooding in near-future China
The sea takes many forms in fiction. It was an adventure playground in Robert Lo…
10 months ago
Germany is now deporting pro-Palestine EU citizens. This is a chilling new step | Hanno Hauenstein ○
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The country’s so-called political centre has licensed a new era of authoritarianism – to the AfD’s delight
A crackdown on political dissent is well under way in Germany. Over the past two years, insti…
11 months ago
Memories of a Catholic Girlhood by Mary McCarthy review – incurable sadness if bravely borne ○
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Colm Tóibín introduces this welcome reprint of the US author and critic’s poignant account of orphanhood, first published in 1957
Mary McCarthy was a formidable, not to say frightening, figure in the …
The CIA Book Club by Charlie English review – chapter and verse as a weapon of war ○
A gripping study of the CIA smuggling operation to get banned books behind the iron curtain
In March 1984 Polish customs officers noticed a suspicious truck. It had arrived on an overnight ferry from …
12 months ago
‘It allowed us to survive, to not go mad’: the CIA book smuggling operation that helped bring down communism ○
From George Orwell to Hannah Arendt and John le Carré, thousands of blacklisted books flooded into Poland during the cold war, as publishers and printers risked their lives for literature
The volume’s…
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