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The malady of infinite aspiration
"Esprit" watches market prophecies self-fulfil; "Blätter" calls off the bets in the financial casino; "Mute" refutes the received wisdom about inflation; "Dilema veche" notes how the financial crisis is reimposing the East-West divide; "New Humanist" turns to Durkheim to make sense of the depression; "Wespennest" doesn't give in to resignation; "Le Monde diplomatique" (Berlin) enters the belly of the piggy bank; "Vikerkaar" heeds cultures' anthropophagic appeal; "Dialogi" warns of a cultural wasteland in Maribor; and "Kritika & Kontext" returns a lost son to Bratislava. [more]
Neither man nor woman nor dog nor cat
"Samtiden" questions the concept of female literature; "Arche" takes stock after the elections in Belarus; "Springerin" unveils the veil; "Merkur" detects an urban moral disaster; "Res Publica Nowa" musters the phantoms of a non-existing metropolis; "FA-art" sees literature caught between commitment and autonomy; "Mittelweg 36" re-reads the "good German" W.G. Sebald; "Revolver Revue" points out the difference between the camera and the pen; "Revista Crítica" asks why young people have a problem with politics; and "Glänta" writes the encyclopaedia of the future. [more]
The greed of others
"Le Monde diplomatique" (Berlin) argues for a return to Rheinish capitalism; "Reset" gives the lowdown on Obama and religion; "Arena" calls for environmental justice; "Le Monde diplomatique" (Oslo) looks for dollars in the American mattress; "Blätter" urges Europe to talk to Russia and not about it; "Esprit" deflates the Paris myth; "Multitudes" reaches into the Guattari toolbox; "Ord&Bild" goes to work; "dérive" unmasks the jargon of fraternity; "L'Espill" fears for quality journalism; and "Passage" heads for the Norwegian woods. [more]
A savage joke
"Index" follows counter terrorism from the courtroom to the community; "Osteuropa" anticipates a renaissance of Jewish life in eastern Europe; "The Hungarian Quarterly" has it out with eastern European savages; "Dilema veche" goes undercover in Italy; "Host" asks who flies the flag of commitment; "Kulturos barai" deplores toothless journalism; "Akadeemia" celebrates academia; "Magyar Lettre Internationale" debates '68 East and West; and "Fronesis" reads Marx beyond Marxism. [more]
Graphic and explicit
"New Humanist" watches the Religious Right get passionate about sex; "Sens Public" reads up on the US elections; "Blätter" stares into the abyss of prevention; "Le Monde diplomatique" (Berlin) calls CCTV a fiasco; "Dilema veche" sees welfare go to the dogs; "Le Monde diplomatique" (Oslo) slates EU immigration policies; "Ny Tid" reports on a new edition of diplo; "Arena" describes the dark sides of Scandinavian social engineering; "Revolver Revue" worries about mass media and memory; and "Merkur" satisfies our curiosity. [more]
The enzyme of freedom
"Transit" advocates a concerted EU approach to Russia; on '68, "Osteuropa" mends a split consciousness while "Mittelweg 36" regrets nothing; "Mute" critiques "Green capitalism"; "Esprit" observes democracy's transformations; "Wespennest" awaits something better; "Kulturos barai" defends Fluxus; "Host" hits the road; "Le Monde diplomatique" (Oslo) follows the comic strip of empire; "Dialogi" warns against experts; "Reset" seeks perspectives for Italy's Democrats. [more]
Why should I fill my pack with stones?
"Edinburgh Review" tells the Uighurs' side of the story; "Blätter" discusses '68 East and West; "Osteuropa" returns to memory politics in eastern Europe; "Arche" responds to a ban on Belarusian spelling; "Vikerkaar" maps cultural landscape; "Le Monde diplomatique" (Berlin) reports on the battle for online customers; "Springerin" theorizes zombiehood; "Magyar Lettre Internationale" explores photography, politics, and the body; "Akadeemia" evaluates laws on stem cell technology; and "Merkur" gets to the imaginary heart of fundamentalism. [more]
Ready... steady... pray!
"Cogito" talks to Will Kymlicka about multiculturalism and democracy; "New Humanist" questions the importance of cultural identity; "Fronesis" says free movement is limited; "Le monde diplomatique" (Berlin) charts the rocky road to a unified Cyprus; "Blätter" raises questions over Brzezinski's role as Obama advisor; "Res Publica Nowa" debates the new republicanism; "Esprit" sits down with a Manga comic; "Merkur" recalls how the cult of belles-lettres met its end in '68; "Le Monde diplomatique" (Oslo) watches free speech on the silver screen; and "Gegenworte" asks whether there can be such a thing as popular science. [more]
Plan B or not to be
"Critique & Humanism" takes a neighbourly view on Turkey; "dérive" doesn't play ball; "Reset" picks up the pieces after Veltroni's defeat; "Multitudes" joins the carnival; "The Hungarian Quarterly" finds the country in a gloomy mood; "Mittelweg 36" asks what's in a friendship; "Revista Crítica" reads epistemologies of the South; "Springerin" sees the provincial in the universal; "Kulturos barai" watches patriarchs fall; and "Cogito" casts a tragic hero for our times. [more]
We, the President
"Le Monde diplomatique" (Berlin) enjoys the view from Slovenia's presidential balcony; "Krytyka" debates genocide; "Osteuropa" compiles a green book on eastern Europe; "Vikerkaar" revisits the Bronze Soldier debate; "Merkur" is wary of the Left's use of opinion polls; "Roots" poses the Macedonian question; "L'Homme" thematizes caring and fighting women; and "Esprit" watches the world in a hurry. [more]
Olympic indifference
"Index on Censorship" predicts protests beyond Beijing 2008; "Mute" explores sport's utopian potential; "Ny Tid" dribbles through the aesthetics of ice hockey; "Blätter" looks to the right of Berlusconi; "Arche" reports on one man's challenge to the Belarusian military; "Arena" removes the veil; "Le Monde diplomatique" (Oslo) wonders why some women are more equal than others; "Edinburgh Review" watches women in Cuban film; "Artistas Unidos Revista" begs for a break; and "Kulturos barai" calls for an open discussion about the Vilnius Guggenheim. [more]
Misunderstanding '68
"Esprit" focuses on "the other '68"; "Merkur" looks back at '68 in amusement; "New Humanist" outstares blind faith; "Blätter" warns of climate wars and market crashes; "The New Presence" takes a dim view of Czech neo-Nazism; "Ord&Bild" works through Nordic colonialism; "Mittelweg 36" debates the terminology of inequality; "dérive" can't see freedom without power; and "Wespennest" writes back from post-crisis Argentina. [more]
The centre is everywhere
"Arche" looks warily at the Belarusian thaw; "Magyar Lettre" gets to the heart of the central European city; "Kulturos barai" criticizes the culture of groceries; "Fronesis" takes counsel on the "unhappy marriage" between feminism and the Left; "A Prior" looks at monuments that won't melt into air; "Revista Crítica" sees the political potential of bio-art; "Critique & Humanism" analyzes neophilia and neophobia; "Dialogi" lashes out at the Slovenian press; and "Glänta" is missing links. [more]
A mother since birth?
"Le Monde diplomatique" (Berlin) lambasts the Italian Left; "Blätter" considers the dialectic of secularization; "Kulturos barai" wonders what Lithuania wants to do with its freedom; "Arena" smells something fishy in the Swedish debate on reproduction; "Osteuropa" finds Russia at the crossroads; "Multitudes" observes the US bring the war home; "Le Monde diplomatique" (Oslo) maps the spread of refugees; "Revolver Revue" journeys back in time to the end of the night; "Host" records the silence of the monasteries; and "Merkur" listens to the music of the spheres. [more]
Free minds before free speech
"Transit" gives Europe a wake-up call; "The Hungarian Quarterly" travels without a passport; "Passage" bears witness; "Wespennest" dares religion to argue with God; "Ord&Bild" is enchanted by materialism; "Esprit" takes the measure of our catastrophic times; "A Prior" explores sound in printed media; and "L'Espill" compiles the cream of Catalan thinking. [more]
Hannah Arendt on '68
"Mittelweg 36" brings to light correspondence between Hannah Arendt and a young '68er; "Arena" looks behind the scenes of the US elections; "Osteuropa", "Index on Censorship", "Blätter", "Arche", and "New Humanist" provide different angles on Russia; "Vikerkaar" watches as politics and religion mix in Europe's most secular country; "Kulturos barai" sees desperation turn to exile; "Edinburgh Review" features new Australian writing; and "Mute" shows invisibles. [more]
An acronym for the homeless
"Le Monde diplomatique" (Berlin) can't wait for consensus over climate change; "Esprit" looks into Sarkozy's intentions for Church and State; "Springerin" doesn't recommend playing the lottery; "Kulturos barai" faces up to Lithuania's migration problem; "Le Monde diplomatique" (Oslo) warns of the erosion of human rights; "Revista Crítica" looks into the abyss and beyond; "Reset" puts its faith in atheism; and "Kritika&Kontext" searches for the liberal in Nietzsche. [more]
"Real men love Jesus"
"L'Homme" calls the religious Right "the bastard offspring of the sexual revolution"; "Osteuropa" asks why Russians long for the stability of the Brezhnev era; "The Hungarian Quarterly" pictures Hungary's historical role in Europe; "Index on Censorship" speaks freely about cyberspeech; "dérive" follows the urban filmscript; "Host" points out the gaps in young Czechs' reading lists; and "Merkur" sees religion pitted against the religion of art. [more]
There are no fair borders
"Le Monde diplomatique" (Berlin) warns against Kosovan independence; "New Humanist" wishes all a happy Darwin Day; "Glänta" goes underground; "Multitudes" discusses soft and hard activism with Toni Negri; "Esprit" bids farewell to democracy as we know it; "Kulturos barai" says sustainability must come first in Vilnius; "Le Monde diplomatique" (Oslo) asks what Norway should do with all its oil; "Revolver Revue" considers engaged filmmaking; and "Ord&Bild" anthologizes Russian short stories. [more]
Do footballers need balls?
"Sodobnost" pinpoints Slovenia's place in Europe; "Samtiden" grabs football by the balls; "Merkur" winds up feminists; "Mittelweg 36" reads Shalamov against Solzhenitsyn; "Gegenworte" brings in the consultants; "Vikerkaar" talks to an anti-anthropologist; and "Passage" reads the dust jacket. [more]
Just another crack in the wall?
"Varlik" joins the normality debate; "Arena" sees Europe's self-image crack; "Magyar Lettre Internationale" reports on a Bosniak renaissance; "Le Monde diplomatique" (Oslo) discovers hope in Bosnia; "Merkur" examines how cultural exports sold despotism to the West; "Arche" meets the Belarusian generation 2.0; "Host" defends Kundera against the enemies of success; and "Vikerkaar" bravos 400 years of opera. [more]
"An alphabet of disappearance"
"du" signs off an era in publishing; "Osteuropa" takes stock of post-election Ukraine and Poland; "Reset" fathoms the gulf between the American and European Left; "Le Monde diplomatique" (Oslo) criticizes the gullibility of Norwegian news reporters; "Nova Istra" proclaims the essay the literary genre of the future; and "Lettre Internationale" (Denmark) wants to make artists into journalists. [more]
"How to pay for a free press"
"Le Monde diplomatique" (Berlin) points the way for a free press; "Esprit" is all about Sarkozyism; "New Humanist" asks what Dawkins and Hitchens mean for humanism; "Critique & Humanism" busts the populist spectre; "Edinburgh Review" airs the Scottish-Polish spirit of exchange; "Arche" deconstructs the myths of Belarusian history; "Kulturos barai" plots the future of Lithuanian music; and "Wespennest" brings out the hidden affirmation of negation. [more]
"The bloody bond of sympathy"
"Merkur" rakes over the embers of the "Deutsche Herbst"; "Mittelweg 36" compares two wars without fronts; "Arena" talks about free speech fundamentalism; "Glänta" is on drugs; "The New Presence" reviews the history of the UN; "dérive" examines the changing place of industry in the city; and "Springerin" takes stock of the documenta 12 magazines project. [more]
Mr Mohammadi's smile
"Esprit" sheds light on the failure of anti-terrorism; "Le Monde diplomatique" (Berlin) watches the sun set on the American century; "Index on Censorship" reports on reporting the Middle East; "Le Monde diplomatique" (Oslo) casts doubt on Michael Moore's method; "Ord&Bild" goes to France, via Québec; "Akadeemia" warns against confusing law with ethics; and "Revolver Revue" wonders if there's ever been a demonstration in favour of contemporary architecture. [more]
"Because you care"
"Samtiden" is worried about what will come after a recycled debate on climate change; "Osteuropa" ventures into Central Asian terra incognita; "Lettre Internationale" (Denmark) undermines clichés about Africa; "Arche" sides with John Paul II against KGB-like slander; "Merkur" conjures up Radio Days; "Magyar Lettre Internationale" abandons the "idée fixe" of the man from the former eastern bloc; "du" celebrates Astrid Lindgren's hundredth birthday; "Le Monde diplomatique" (Berlin) takes Chavez-style socialism to task; and "Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais" looks at local politics on a global scale. [more]
"Death, debt, decadence... and detectives"
"Mute" bursts the credit bubble; "Transit" takes the sting out of death; "Arena" rails at intelligent design in Swedish schools; "Merkur" asks what's wrong with a bit of decadence; "Multitudes" explores autochthonous networks; "Wespennest" profiles new Turkish writing; "Le Monde diplomatique" (Oslo) remembers Bergman and Antonioni; and "du" turns armchair detective. [more]
"Who's afraid of Gordon Brown?"
"Le Monde diplomatique" (Berlin) unmasks Scotophobia; "Le Monde diplomatique" (Oslo) protests the EU's war on Hollywood; "Reset" reveals Pope Benedict XVI's tactics; "Dialogi" exposes press censorship in Slovenia; "Mittelweg 36" theorizes war and media; "Esprit" puts the judiciary on trial; "FA-art" ponders the question of what literature really is; and "dérive" watches privatization take hold of the city. [more]
"Democracy and its opposite"
"Springerin" talks to Jacques Rancière about democracy and the political; "Artistas Unidos Revista" introduces a writer, full stop; "Kulturos barai" warns of theoretical dogmatism; "Osteuropa" urges intellectuals to criticize European integration; "The New Presence" asks what the Czechs actually want from the State; "L'Espill" tracks Salvador Allende back to a clinic in Santiago; and "du" finds Amitav Ghosh disillusioned by what happened to the US. [more]
"Unlikely bedfellows"
"Krytyka" casts a wary eye at neighbouring Russia; "Le Monde diplomatique" (Berlin) revisits the Rose Revolution; "Esprit" outs Sarkozy and Gramsci as unlikely bedfellows; "Lettre Internationale" (Denmark) explores the space between fact and fiction; "Lettera internazionale" presents an alternative to unbridled economic growth; "Greek Political Science Review" watches Europeanization take effect; "L'Homme" asks who should do the dishes; "Multitudes" intervenes in the post-colonial narrative; and "A Prior Magazine" declares a state of uncertainty. [more]
"Spreading the wit virus"
"Roots" tries to turn foe into friend; "Osteuropa" re-reads the Gulag; "Mittelweg 36" cross-examines the secondary witness; "Arena" enters the DJ booth; "Merkur" critiques cultural criticism; "Revolver Revue" passes judgement on Tom Stoppard's "Rock 'n' Roll"; and "Host" lists Georges Perec's obsessions. [more]
"Rich, egoistic, and self-centred"
"Samtiden" punctures Norwegian hubris; "Esprit" looks at France's place in the new world; "Le Monde diplomatique" (Berlin) features a dossier on the Six Day War; "Fronesis" watches the fall and rise of the bourgeoisie; "Cogito" (Greece) poses a big question to philosophy; and "Magyar Lettre Internationale" remembers the taste of unfreedom. [more]
"Turning point for the Left"
"Merkur" sees the Six Day War as turning point for the Left; "Reset" debates the Böckenförde dictum; "Host" searches for the traces of the Beat generation in Czech literature; "Kulturos barai" reads Lithuania's Robin Hood as nation builder; "The New Presence" finds Prague boring; "du" follows the Danube from the Black Forest to the Black Sea. [more]
"Sinister forces at work"
"Index on Censorship" sees the State and not the government run Turkey; "Arche" explains paradoxical Belarus; "Osteuropa" traces Western pop icons back to eastern Europe; "Le Monde diplomatique" (Berlin) puts the mop in cosmopolitan; "Mute" blames capital for climate change; "Ord&Bild" plunges into the world of water; "Wespennest" lists the critic's privileges... These are just some of the featured journals in this week's review. [more]
"Take me to the Troubles... and fast"
"Edinburgh Review" looks back at Northern Ireland's Troubles; "Osteuropa" backs the power of the buck in Belarus; "Esprit" returns to the memory of France's treatment of French Jews; "Revista Crítica" looks beyond the heteronorm; "Glänta" thinks that sex might not be such a bad idea after all; and "du" searches for the secret to Madonna's eternal success. These are only some of the featured journals in this week's review. [more]
"Electing a monarch"
"Le Monde diplomatique" (Berlin) prepares for the French presidential elections; "Le Monde diplomatique" (Oslo) supports Norway's stance on Hamas; "Arena" confronts male honour and female subservience; "dérive" places an ear to the pavement; "Transit" seeks solutions for the struggling welfare state; "Esprit" rides the religious wave; "Merkur" takes a wry look at the game of loyalties; "Helicon" leaps artistically into the unknown; "Revolver Revue" follows Jirí Weil to Alsace; and "Zeszyty Literackie" brings Sandor Marai to Poland. [more]
"Pairanoia"
"Ord&Bild" dissects paranoia; "Wespennest" sails down the Danube; "Magyar Lettre Internationale" leafs through the family album; "L'Espill" traces the origins of Catalanophobia; "Dialogi" stands up for Slovenia's human rights ombudsman; "Host" wonders whether March is still the Month of Books; and "du" finds the elderly alive and kicking. [more]
"The sisterhood trap"
"Lettre Internationale" (Denmark) takes the pulse of the European elites; "Arena" warns against the sisterhood trap; "Merkur" asks why Germans don't like to talk about class; "Le Monde diplomatique" (Berlin) questions Chinese protesters' failure to unite; "NZ" covers the spectrum of Putin's Russia; "Multitudes" launches an institutional critique of art; "Akadeemia" surveys the artificial languages of three Estonians; and "du" reads the writings of Scheherazade's daughters. [more]
"In defence of independent media"
"Arche" calls for an independent media in Belarus; "Osteuropa" touches the sore points of the European Neighbourhood Policy; "Edinburgh Review" connects Calcutta; "Mittelweg 36" translates contemporary theories of fascism; "Esprit" visits an ignored part of la république; "Vikerkaar" discusses the abuse of history by politics; and "Sodobnost International" launches an English anthology of Slovenian literature. [more]
"An atheist's survival guide"
"Merkur" rearms the atheists; "Reset" names the three enemies of reason; "dérive" considers city networking hocus-pocus; "L'Homme" puts women back in business; "Revista Crítica" slaughters some holy cows; "Springerin" prepares for documenta; "Host" rereads Kundera; and "Semicerchio" seeks the role of the poet. [more]
"Hospitals under treatment"
"Esprit" asks the doctors; "Osteuropa" diagnoses social malaise in Russia; "Index on Censorship" enters the dragon; "Glänta" seeks truth and reconciliation; "Le Monde diplomatique" (Berlin) reports from a melancholy Mexico; "The New Presence" finds an outlet for Czech consumerism; and "Akadeemia" supports institutional funding. [more]
"Reality check"
"Cogito" (Greece) searches for the role of philosophy in public life; "Merkur" says goodbye to Clausewitz; "Kulturos barai" bemoans Europe's most apathetic electorate; "Mittelweg 36" grapples with definitions of genocide; "Le Monde diplomatique" (Oslo) gives conspiracy theorists a reality check; "Host" talks to Leo Pavlát; and "Revolver Revue" reads young German poetry. [more]
"People don't meet in the street"
"Wespennest" pinpoints the places of globalization; "Le Monde diplomatique" (Berlin) disassembles IKEA's worker-friendly image; "Arena" takes apart the life puzzle; "Esprit" zooms in on post-colonialism's past; "Varlik" senses the culture of fear that connects Turkey and Europe; "Osteuropa" reveals the not-so-hidden aims of Polish anti-corruption laws; "Zeszyty Literackie" features a leading figure of Polish film; and "Helicon" pieces together the mosaic of Israel. [more]
"God's comeback"
"Lettre Internationale" (Denmark) stands up for the unpredictable cultural magazine; "Ord&Bild" calls capitalism a religion; "Kulturos barai" explains Lithuania's brain drain; "Critique & Humanism" contributes to the recognition debate; "Merkur" searches for global justice; "Reset" continues its quest for democracy; "L'Espill" counts the cost of the real estate boom in Valencia; and "du" sheds light on the horror and enchantment of the Pacific. [more]
"A death can keep death away"
"The New Presence" is on the lookout for European identity; "Osteuropa" decides between parliament and the street in Hungary; "Esprit" redirects the pope's criticism from Muslims to Protestants; "Le Monde diplomatique" (Oslo) searches for the legacy of Anna Politkovskaya; "Le Monde diplomatique" (Berlin) observes China's political reaction to the environmental backlash; "Akadeemia" predicts a swing in the pendulum of Estonian theatre; and "Host" condemns contemporary Czech fiction. [more]
"Psychoanalysis on horseback"
"Merkur" exposes envy's inner workings; "Arena" debates prostitution and biopolitics; "dérive" mobilizes the city; "Dialogi" enters the battlefield of psychotherapy; "Magyar Lettre Internationale" puts Austria-Hungary on the couch; "Kulturos barai" seeks Lithuania in Europe and Europe in Lithuania; "NZ" deconstructs the post-Soviet intelligentsia; and "du" journeys to Andrea Camilleri's Sicily. [more]
"A mask for a faceless power"
"Multitudes" finds talk of integration "senseless"; "Glänta" takes a multi-angled approach to multiculture; "Le Monde diplomatique" (Berlin) revisits revolts; "Mittelweg 36" debates Israel's secular myth; "Host" follows a Czech poet into the countryside; "Sodobnost" takes children's literature seriously; "Nova Istra" reads Europe; and "Springerin" reveals the deadly tactics in humanitarian military operations. [more]
"Artificial urbanity"
Esprit returns to the suburbs; dérive investigates control and public space; Reset sketches a history of fanaticism; Osteuropa confronts the democratic deficit in the post-Soviet space; Greek Political Science Review debates contentious politics; Dialogi presents the future of Slovenian drama; and du drafts Rebecca Horn's "fine mechanics of the soul". [more]
"The fig leaves of ignorance"
"The new facts of life"
Reset stands up for secularism; Mittelweg 36 theorizes Zinedine Zidane; Index on Censorship keeps an eye on liberal and illiberal media; Lettre Internationale (Denmark) measures the misery of the Middle East; du reports on life in the shadow of the Israeli wall; Cogito (Greece) investigates the very idea of artificial intelligence; Vikerkaar pops the corks on its twentieth anniversary; Mehr Licht! falls into literature's aesthetic daze; and Osteuropa tries to solve the enigma of Shostakovich. [more]
"Blueprint for a life together"
Esprit provides a blueprint for Lebanon's future; Merkur sees Polish tradition invent itself; The New Presence asks why 13 per cent of Czechs vote Communist; Akadeemia tracks the history of conservative revolution; Le Monde diplomatique (Oslo) sees political potential in "mass self communication"; Zeszyty Literackie focuses on the international Czeslaw Milosz; and L'Homme seeks a new discourse of ageing. [more]
"When a lie becomes a fact"
Belgrade Circle Journal pleads for a community of memory; Osteuropa sees a clash of worldviews in the prostitution debate; Esprit sounds out the strengths and weaknesses of political participation; Springerin seeks alternatives to a "welfare art"; Revista Critica re-interprets modernism(s); Magyar Lettre Internationale reads migrant Europe; Lettre Internationale (Denmark) asks "which multiculturalism?"; Ord & Bild searches for hidden things; and Kulturos Barai celebrates 500 issues. [more]
"Something will snap in our heads"
L'Espill calls for the "Third Culture"; Merkur finds an answer to why poor countires are poor on a bumpy road; Revolver Revue seeks Europe in the Roman alphabet; Le Monde diplomatique (Berlin) prescribes a remedy for Serbia's phantom pain; Mittelweg 36 sees Algeria through Bourdieu's lens; Akadeemia brings back Althusser; NZ discusses security politics in Russia; Cogito delves into esoteric thought; Dialogi laments the power of public libraries; du reveals the myths of St. Moritz. [more]
"The pleasure and the pain"
Osteuropa joins the dots between politics and football; Le Monde diplomatique (Berlin) talks to a Syrian Mujahid; Le Monde diplomatique (Oslo) fears the Panopticon of surveillance society; Wespennest confronts Rwandan reality; Esprit pays homage to Daniel Arasse; Multitudes continues the Deleuzian adventure; Kritika & Kontext explores consciousness; Zeszyty Literackie takes a literary journey; and Passage writes the literary history of anti-Americanism. [more]
"All eyes on Germany"
Merkur unmasks the real cause of the fury over the Mohammed caricatures; du seeks Germany in Germany; Arena debates prostitution and the World Cup; Glänta creates collective art; Kulturos barai swims agains the tide of Soviet nostalgia; Diwan discusses literature in Bosnia and Herzegovina under a dark cloud; and Reset sees the author disappear into the Ethernet. [more]
"Parallel lives"
Index on Censorship traces diasporic lives; Samtiden hands the pen to the outsider; Le Monde diplomatique (Berlin) looks behind the building sites in Kurdistan; Rigas Laiks finds madness on a monumental scale; FA-art seeks the subject in Polish poetry and fiction; Dialogi discusses the relationship between culture and government; and Sodobnost reads literature in the context of globalization. [more]
"There's a doomsday prophet in us all"
Lettre Internationale (Denmark) interprets the dream of Europe; Ord&Bild craves for a state of emergency; du finds baby faces in the supermarket; Esprit takes a cool look at the digital future; Vikerkaar compares hotly-contested pasts; Ji sees two sides to the nuclear renaissance after Chernobyl; Kulturos barai diagnoses Soviet schizophrenia; and Akadeemia gets down to statistics. [more]
"So... How was I?"
Mittelweg 36 watches Germany warming to its role as host; Arena prophesies genetically designed amazons; Le Monde diplomatique (Berlin) doubts the usefulness of genetically engineered plants; Arche debriefs the Belarusian opposition; Akadeemia goes back to nineteenth-century military school; Springerin catches art and theory in the act; The New Presence asks Czech film to speak up; and Dialogi brings the Slovenian Alps down to size. [more]
"Catastrophe unfinished"
Osteuropa returns to Chernobyl; Multitudes proclaims the second era of political ecology; Reset offers suggestions to the Italian Left (government?); Le Monde diplomatique (Oslo) continues its cosmopolitical quest; Kulturos barai broaches the unspeakable; Revista Crítica puts Portuguese literatures to use; Magyar Lettre Internationale celebrates fiction writing past, present, and future; and Mehr Licht! takes Don Quixote out of politics. [more]
"Bitter oranges"
Ji sucks on a bitter orange; Osteuropa follows the trail of missing art; Index on Censorship delivers a reminder on small wars; Le Monde diplomatique (Berlin) sees no laughs in religion; Esprit praises Paul Ricoeur's philosophical stubbornness; and Varlik gets jealous. [more]
"Encounters in Cosmopolis"
Le Monde diplomatique (Oslo) populates the cosmopolis; Samtiden estimates the price of the War on Terror in Norway; Wespennest looks at South Africa through the lens of the Drum generation; Transit considers Europe's options; Akadeemia travels back along the road to Estonia's independence; Kulturos barai finds Lithuania's growing desire for a strong hand shocking; Cogito hears about an intellectual trajectory on the British New Left; and du explores the cosmos Bach. [more]
"When in doubt..."
Esprit X-rays the French "No"; Critique & Humanism sets its sights on the city; Mittelweg 36 links violence and civil society; Rigas Laiks questions clichés about sex trafficking; Arena challenges the party poopers on the conservative Left; FA-art translates young Swedish writers; and Vikerkaar has a laugh. [more]
"A matter of timing"
Ord&Bild diagnoses Danish normality; Reset calls for an Italian integration model; Multitudes defends French society against the Republic; Arche isn't caught off balance by an early election; Akadeemia tells the secret story of the first Soviet atomic bomb; Kulturos barai deplores TV voyeurism; and du explores Ang Lee's film worlds. [more]
"The right of resurrection"
Lateral pays the price of independence; Esprit proposes new approaches to caring; Index on Censorship records the reinvention of Russia; L'Homme introduces Whiteness Studies; springerin reveals collective amnesia in the culture industry; Passage puts the local back into cosmopolitics; Ji looks at Ukraine's geopolitical alternatives; Neprikosnovennij Zapas takes 1905 out of 1917's shadow; Nova Istra hails the Japanization of the West; and Le Monde diplomatique (Berlin) meets Club Med's ideal natives. [more]
"Presidents, apostles, and poets"
Mittelweg 36 re-examines Nixon's Vietnam policy; Akadeemia translates the Austrian greats; Glänta reads the philosophers' apostle; Kulturos barai asks unpleasant questions about the destruction of heritage; Revista Crítica analyzes social movements; Helicon opens the gate to poetry; Osteuropa traces 80 years of eastern European studies in Germany. [more]
"The neighbour as spy"
Arena assesses collateral damage; Le Monde diplomatique (Berlin) contrasts multicultural London with egalitarian Paris; Varlik tells the neighbours what they don't want to hear; Lateral interviews Spanish literature's harshest critics; Gegenworte searches for the sites of science; Wespennest goes back to where it all started; Magyar Lettre Internationale finds nobody home; Arche analyzes Belarusian politics. [more]
"Maps and worlds"
Esprit discusses the geography of rioting; du finds as many worlds as maps; Critique & Humanism campaigns for the Bulgarian cultural journal; Reset reads the freebies; Sodobnost weighs up the pros and cons of cultural subsidies; Kulturos barai gives Lithuanian theatre mixed reviews. [more]
"Digital Scheherazades"
Osteuropa sees the good and the bad in informal politics; Samtiden finds Norwegian reporting on the US one-sided; Le Monde diplomatique (Berlin) celebrates the rise of women and the media in the Arab world; Rigas Laiks makes us all look normal; FA-art discovers a future for the punk generation; and Varlik joins the debate on Jean-Paul Sartre. [more]
"A taste of the other"
Glänta tastes the other within; Nuori Voima goes on a diet of forbidden fruit; Multitudes breathes life into Europe; Vikerkaar historicizes nationalism; Kulturos barai looks at the relationship between history and civil society; and Ord&Bild asks who the owner is. [more]
"Sex, lies, and history books"
Mittelweg 36 takes a different angle on memory; Index on Censorship exposes the downside of international cooperation; springerin unravels the politics of art in South America, and Lateral reviews the politics of literature in the Spanish-speaking world; Magyar Lettre Internationale opens up the history books; Esprit captures the spirit of urbanism; and Neprikosnovennij Zapas (NZ) says goodbye to the Soviet queue. [more]
"Revolutionary demons"
Roots sets out on the road to freedom; du traces sympathy for the devil; Arche discusses the Belarusian cultural divide; Osteuropa defines challenges to political education after the Cold War; Semicerchio lends Czech poets an ear. [more]
"Generation Zero"
Ji enters Ukrainian subculture; Wespennest translates Bulgarian authors; Samtiden debates the Norwegian Left; Reset screens the future of Italian cinema; Cogito and Rigas Laiks look at the human side of architecture; and Le Monde diplomatique (Berlin) dedicates a dossier to the UN on its sixtieth anniversary. [more]
"A guide to possible futures"
Sodobnost argues the case for translation; Ord&Bild maps Lebanon's possible futures; Mittelweg 36 comes to the defence of the welfare state; du embarks on a gastrosophic trip through Bordeaux; Nova Istra pays a visit to James Joyce in Pula; and Neprikosnovennij Zapas opens up perspectives on the Russian state. [more]
"The impossible vacation"
Le Monde diplomatique (Berlin) anatomizes respect; Rigas Laiks takes on the sticky subject of pornography; Esprit crosses the Sahara; Varlik discloses the vacation habits of Turkish writers; Nuori Voima is lovestruck; Vikerkaar talks South Estonian; and Critique & Humanism judges war. [more]
"The return of religion"
Reset comments on the return of religion; Osteuropa debates what Yukos means for Russia; Magyar Lettre Internationale tours European cultural capitals; Sodobnost opens the curtain on Slovenian drama; and The New Presence reveals the Czechs' capacity for political protest. [more]
"The New York of the ancients"
Le Monde diplomatique (Berlin) tours colourful Alexandria; L'Homme assesses gender politics in East and West; Transit maps out the emergence of the modern Ukraine; Dialogi looks at love, eroticism, and masochism; Revista Critica gives peace a chance; and Kritika & Kontext puts together a liberal dream team. [more]
"A lazy summer"
Mittelweg 36 follows displaced persons; Esprit compares social politics; Kulturos barai advocates cultural heritage; Varlik celebrates laziness; and Helicon tells secrets. [more]
"Water and oil, friend and foe"
Wespennest follows the traces of oil in Russia, the UK, and Austria; Le Monde diplomatique (Berlin) exposes the ongoing privatization of the water industry; Glänta finds a concealed opportunity in the crisis of the humanities; Springerin looks at images of friend and foe; Esprit readdresses the questions of 1905, the separation of church and state in France. [more]
"Radical machines"
Gegenworte diagnoses Einsteinitis in Berlin; Multitudes sets radical machines against the techno empire; Reset proposes a dialogue of civilizations; Revista Critica discusses collective action and mediatic publics; and Samtiden polls on the Norwegian monarchy. [more]
"A fragile spring"
Esprit looks back on a fragile spring in the Middle East; the German edition of Le Monde diplomatique celebrates ten years of transcending borders; Cogito follows Kant to the end of eternity; Vikerkaar proclaims the Republic of Letters; and Index on Censorship asks whether it is "Time to move on?" [more]
"Gulfs of memory"
Osteuropa, NZ, and Kulturos barai on the gulfs of memory; Passage reads avant-garde children's literature on acid; Nova Istra on literary versatility; Ord&Bild sends a barbarian to Beirut; and Mittelweg 36 asks what's new about the new anti-Semitism. [more]