CULTURE
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‘To compose a sentence was to take a moral stance’
Slavenka was… irrepressible. I had been reading her for many years before we met. Her writing belonged among my first…
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Memory over ideology | Eurozine
With articles ranging from the legacies of occupation and exile to contemporary art, poetry, urban history and anxieties surrounding artificial…
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Dispatch from Ukraine | Eurozine
It’s 9am on the fourth anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and in Ternopil, all the traffic has stopped.…
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Russia’s imprisoned mothers | Eurozine
In December 2025, the Russian Presidential Human Rights Council member Eva Merkacheva asked Vladimir Putin to perform a ‘holiday miracle’.…
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A moral compass: Slavenka Drakulić (1949–2026)
Slavenka Drakulić’s integrity was unshakeable. When she described a conflict, a society or a human predicament, she was not simply…
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The world next door | Eurozine
When Anu, a young Hindu nurse, slips into a blue burqa to meet her Muslim lover Shiaz in Payal Kapadia’s…
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Palestine: A future to rebuild
The destruction of Gaza has remained strangely invisible, despite unfolding before a global audience, write Hamit Bozarslan, Anne-Lorraine Bujon and…
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Competing for the origin of life
For this is why not only lice, bedbugs, fleas and helminths, come into being as the guests and neighbours of…
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Disability histories | Eurozine
With 1.3 billion people (and counting) living with disabilities around the world, and in the context of a neoliberal order…
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A staggering reversal of assumptions
President Donald Trump’s unjustified and unjustifiable war against Iran has shown the fragility of the fossil fuel-based energetic order. At…
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