The organized upperworld

"Osteuropa" analyses Hungarian politics in upheaval; the "Dublin Review of Books" says together, small EU-states are strong; "Reset" asks Napolitano what Einaudi would have done; "Le Monde diplomatique" (Oslo) goes deep into debt; "dérive" inspects the foundations of Red Vienna; "Esprit" says home-owning is not the solution to the French housing crisis; and "Studija" urges western art critics to get past Cold War clichés. [more]

A new way to talk politics

"New Humanist" predicts religion might be Romney's downfall; "Mittelweg 36" wants more justice through more Europe; "Merkur" seeks guidance in founding principles; "La Revue nouvelle" reports on a big day for democracy in Belgium; "Osteuropa" finds European standards wanting in Croatian history books; "Magyar Lettre" exposes the Belarusian blind spot in Milosz's native realm; and "The Hungarian Quarterly" talks to László Krasznahorkai about God, the world and (the end of) literature. [more]

"Transparency" in scare quotes

"Esprit" sheds new perspectives on the Arab Revolutions; "Gegenworte" argues that good science is good business; "Index on Censorship" calls for greater transparency in pharmaceutical trials; "Arena" sees Swedish transparency clouded by closed Stasi archives; "La Revue Nouvelle" says beware "transparency", it's not what it seems; "Dileme veche" accounts for Romania's lack of international clout; "Varlik" examines society's conscience; and "Ord&Bild" gets positive reviews. [more]

Itching powder for the Left

"Blätter" warns of a Schmittian turn in European politics; "Soundings" speaks for socialist England; "Merkur" signs off the end of an editorial era; "Osteuropa" seeks reasons for Russia's retarded democracy; "Samtiden" asks what if Breivik had been an Arab; "Syn og Segn" talks to Yoko Ono about the importance of an empty mind; "L'Espill" scrutinizes Spain's new far-Right; and "Host" celebrates Czech balladeer Karel Jaromir Erben. [more]

Delaying the nemesis

"Esprit" ponders German contradictions; "Polar" cautions against playing safe; "Lettera internazionale" obtains Adriatic equilibrium; "dérive" enjoys urban pleasures; "Vikerkaar" theorizes cultural explosions; "Akadeemia" disregards the perennially contrary; "Dialogi" revisits the classic avant-garde; and "Springerin" reappraises the art of diplomacy. [more]

The crass defence of Christendom

"New Humanist" lays to rest the myth of Christian values; "Glänta" watches racism mutate; "Vikerkaar" calls Breivik the first terrorist of the European New Right; "Wespennest" explores Austria as it is; "Magyar Lettre" seeks alternatives to regime architecture; "Merkur" dwells on the Green vision of self-induced annihilation; "Blätter" says Iranian philosophers prove Islam can do democracy; "Studija" doubts good art needs the kudos of victimization; and "NLO" re-reads Enlightenment cosmopolitanism. [more]

Foreign, all too foreign

"Varlik" sees the Gastarbeiter turn 50; "Cogito" (Turkey) misses coverage of civil disobedience in the Turkish press; "Arena" predicts the downfall of the euro; "Esprit" asks what's driving employees over the edge; "Mittelweg 36" finds nothing ordinary about ordinary men; "Intellectum" talks to genocide lawyer William Schabas; "La Revue nouvelle" says the working class still frightens Europe's conservatives; "NZ" examines the national form of proletarian content; and "Le Monde diplomatique" (Oslo) reads Gombrowicz to understand the depravities of today's far-Right. [more]

Anything but democracy

"Blätter" suggests a way to make Europe future-fit; "Lettera Internazionale" likes the pace and plurality of the South; "Fronesis" prefers the critique to the critiqued; "Dilema veche" finds Europe in thrall to a nationalist minority; "Dziejaslou" consults augurs and magic realists; "Res Publica Nowa" asks what Poles want of their leaders; "Multitudes" enters gaseous modernity; and "Du" bursts the neuro-bubble. [more]

The fictions of finance

"Index" says art is first in line for censorship worldwide; "openDemocracy" asks whether the eurocrisis is a moral crisis; "Blätter" thinks the Web can still be saved; "Syn og Segn" seeks solutions to Internet extremism; "Gegenworte" has discovered the fountain of youth; "Le Monde diplomatique" (Oslo) encounters south-Slavic cultural unity on Mount Tito; "Kulturos barai" celebrates Tadeusz Konwicki's visions of homeland; and "Ord&Bild" talks to Steve Sem-Sandberg about writing and research. [more]

The heresy of common sense

"New Humanist" tracks the tremors after 9/11; "Merkur" refuses to conform to non-conformism; "The Hungarian Quarterly" offers no way out of the intractable Roma problem; "Osteuropa" examines the siege of Leningrad as problematic lieu de mémoire; "Samtiden" takes comfort in what isn't happening in Norway; "Du" venerates Roberto Bolaño; "Studija" sheds light on the Venice Biennale; "Dialogi" criticizes moonlighting theatre critics; and "Vikerkaar" ponders the Finno-Ugric scattergun approach. [more]

My girlfriend's earlobe

"Magyar Lettre" widens the multiculturalism debate; "Soundings" provides a surprisingly positive perspective on the European crisis; "Arena" talks to Wendy Brown about identity politics, secularism and neoliberalism; "Mute" says the UK phone-hacking scandal will lead to less press freedom; "Mittelweg 36" examines the camp from WW I to Abu Ghraib; "Esprit" considers the role of chance in political decision making; "Reset" is embarrassed by the lack of a mosque in Milan; and "L'Homme" tells the story of the lieutenant nun. [more]

The frothy surf of anxiety

"Le Monde diplomatique" (Oslo) says don't dismiss Breivik as a madman; "Transit" asks why political art must be ambiguous; "Springerin" is optimistic about the Arab spring; "Osteuropa" reviews the highs and lows in latest Russian fiction; "NLO" frets about the vampiric turn; "Dilema Veche" reads Cioran's Securitate file; "Merkur" rails against German provincialism; "Kulturos barai" wants more cultural cooperation in the Baltics; and "Cogito" interviews Julia Kristeva. [more]

We're not from there

"Osteuropa" finds Poland on the sidelines of Europe; "Blätter" says democracy mustn't stop at the borders of the nation; "Studija" views Lithuanian art at the Venice Biennale, or not; "Res Publica Nowa" treads the pavements of Central Europe; "dérive" reclaims the night; "Esprit" discusses privacy, regulation and the Web; "Multitudes" considers commonality; "Dialogi" gets paranoid; and "Passage" occupies itself with occupation culture. [more]

Vulnerabilities everywhere

"Index on Censorship" calls for a mature debate on privacy; "Blätter" sees DSK as today's chauvinist writ large; "New Humanist" says neuroscience just doesn't get it; "Reset" features the leading lights of Islamic reformism; "Kulturos barai" fears Satanic mills across the border; "GAM" thinks its time to get antagonistic; "Revista Crítica" revisits architectural debates of the 1960s; and "L'Espill" lets Balkan writers correct European misconceptions. [more]

How it eats, mates and swims

"Esprit" rediscovers the spirit of '68 across the Mediterranean; "Blätter" says Germany needs help becoming European again; "Mute" exposes austerity's logic; "Glänta" classifies everything; "Merkur" finds denouncing Nazis neither big nor clever; "Mittelweg 36" sees little new in Germany's new middle-class protest movement; "Samtiden" thinks intellectuals should exercise less and smoke more; and "Host" resists making another statue out of Czeslaw Milosz. [more]

Perfectly lacquered lives

"Magyar Lettre" examines its prejudices about Others; "Du" asks who's afraid of Ai Weiwei; "Wespennest" does a nature issue; "Syn og Segn" calls for open debate on Norway's military presence in Afghanistan; "Ny Tid" talks to Iryna Vidanava on free speech in Belarus; "Dziejaslou" re-reads Milosz and Bykau; "Res Publica Nowa" imagines homelands and disappearing borders; "NZ" negotiates Russia's gender-power nexus; "Osteuropa" details the legal travesties of the second Khodorkovsky trial; and "NLO" interprets meteorological metaphors of revolution. [more]

The size of the cake itself

"Dilema veche" listens to Michnik and Plesu on resistance through culture; "Arche" hears from those who were THERE on 19 December 2010; "Arena" talks to an Armenian in Istanbul; "Osteuropa" charts Arctic politics, society and environment; "Springerin" exposes the feminist roots of Islamophobia; "Ord&Bild" pays attention to children; "dérive" explores links between Nazism and department stores; "Lettera" fights for a better body politics; and "Vikerkaar" is madly happy. [more]

Firefighters or architects?

"Mittelweg 36" gets an earful from Jacques Delors about politicians' lack of Eurovision; "Blätter" says no European demos without risk-taking; "New Humanist" reads a "Good Book" instead of the Bible; "Host" finds out why the Czechs, unlike the Poles, can get by without God; Polar pleads for a new culture of dying; "Esprit" compares conservative ethics of catastrophe with the new revolutionary optimism; "Mute" considers radical politics and the supreme fiction of art; "Merkur" insists on the complexity of democratic negotiation; and "Beton" takes part in an Albanian-Serbian dialogue. [more]

It wasn't, it didn't, and it won't

"Soundings" finds privatized solutions bad for care and carers; "Reset" issues a moral reprimand from a bishop and a socialist; "Edinburgh Review" talks to the poet cum editor Alan Gillis; "The Hungarian Quarterly" distinguishes a sense of injustice from false patriotism; "Vikerkaar" puts a damper on revolutionary idealism; "Le Monde diplomatique" says the energy debate is about more than nuclear power; "Fronesis" renegotiates the boundaries of man and nature; "Studija" critiques art criticism; and "A Prior" proclaims the narrative turn in performance art. [more]

God plus printing

"Merkur" snorts at the notion of intellectual popularity; "Host" hails the return of the real in new Flemish literature; "Dziejaslou" discusses Belarusian authors' favourite postmodern game; "Blätter" says beware the pseudo-consensus on renewables; "Du" leads the exodus offline; "Sarajevo Notebook" hears of an immigrant's double life; "NAQD" redefines female migration; "Arena" detects Nordic racism behind politically correct code words; and "Kulturos barai" demands historical crimes be treated equally. [more]

Unprecedented but not unexpected

"Esprit" inspects the building site that is French democracy; "Index" tells a cautionary tale about anti-censorship software; "Osteuropa" recommends that Europe learn from America for a change; "Dilema veche" finds fear and loathing blocking Romanian society; "Springerin" hears Immanuel Wallerstein on the world revolution of '68; "Syn og Segn" relates the rarely-told story of Norwegian women's resistance in WWII; "Lettera Internazionale" hopes for more enlightened bosses; "Vikerkaar" says the folk weren't as backward as folklorists think; and "Du" profiles René Burri, Switzerland's photographer of world history. [more]

A strange kind of paradise

"New Humanist" comments on Britain's anti-feminist backlash; "Blätter" discusses Muslims as the better Europeans; "Merkur" says there are neighbours and then there are neighbours; "Magyar Lettre" is haunted by central European multilingualism; "Host" reads Czech prison writing; "Samtiden" thinks journalists should stay behind the police cordon; "Ord&Bild" finds WikiLeaks too important to leave to a few activists; "L'Espill" knows that not everything permitted to Spanish politicians is honest; and "Mittelweg 36" explores mutations in on- and offline friendship. [more]

Irony as painkiller

"Osteuropa" draws conclusions from Lukashenka's crackdown; "Studija" enters Belarus through art's portal; "Esprit" finds political Islam subjugating the preacher to the prince; "Le Monde diplomatique" (Oslo) revels in Arabic revolts; "Arena" warns that dropping multiculturalism could be fatal; "Varlik" sees The Satanic Verses still creating waves in Turkey; "Vikerkaar" is underwhelmed by Sofi Oksanen's novel The Purge; "NZ" considers Russian modernization fundamentally archaic; "Revista Crítica" discusses women in public and women in private; and "Ny Tid" calls for contextualization, not censorship of the n-word. [more]

The invisible elbow

"Blätter" sees the lie of the nation persisting in Europe; "Reset" speaks some home truths about Italy; "Glänta" shows how the dead are (ab)used by the living; "Res Publica Nowa" scents political necrophilia in Poland; "Multitudes" claims its right to the city; "dérive" welcomes the illogic of signs; "Merkur" gets to the bottom of homo economicus; "Dialogi" is not amused by Slovenian political rhetoric; and "NLO" sides with Platonov's revolutionary animals. [more]

"The reality I've been referring to..."

"Index" asks if international attention gets writers out of prison; "Esprit" talks about the bloody side of heroism; "Le Monde diplomatique" (Oslo) calls WikiLeaks an informal truth commission; "Ny Tid" digs up a 200 year-old quote on new media; "Mittelweg 36" explains the enduring fascination of Adorno, Arendt, Benjamin et al.; "Kulturos barai" keeps it passionately platonic; "Soundings" finds Europe's low-wage hinterland still in shock; "Gegenworte" witnesses a heated dispute between mathematicians; "Osteuropa" meets Asiatic despots all over ru.net; and "Studija" seeks the true value of art. [more]

The Hungarian trade-off

"The Hungarian Quarterly" hears recollections about Bartók; "Ord&Bild" finds self-deception at the root of Hungary's crisis; "Dilema veche" asks what kind of capitalism for eastern Europe; "Merkur" defends Israel from the anti-nationalists; "New Humanist" says monster myths distort debate about science; "Multitudes" immerses itself in future TV; "Blätter" doesn't trust the would-be guardians of cyberspace; "Magyar Lettre" considers the roots of Ostalgia; "L'Homme" examines the symbolism of milk, blood and DNA; and "Syn og Segn" sees extreme sports as the new rites of passage. [more]

Organized minimalism

"Merkur" puts kilometres of cellulose behind it; "Blätter" proposes national solutions to a global problem; "Esprit" says EU economic policy is more political than it pretends; "Kulturos barai" reclaims the Enlightenment mission of the university; "Arena" argues for Swedish aid not troops; "L'Espill" sets limits to mass tourism; "Osteuropa" reports on mudslinging in Hungary; "Dziejaslou" appeals for Tolstoyan non-violence; and "Du" finds its distorted reflection in the mirror of Tomi Ungerer. [more]

Habsburgia reduced to its urban core

"Transit" encounters eastern Europe with Tony Judt; "Polar" advances (critically) into a brighter future; "Critique & Humanism" debates the challenge to democracy; "Springerin" dissects the Solidarnosc logo; "Samtiden" sees the Norwegian pendulum swing from diversity to assimilation; "Vikerkaar" finds charlatans thriving at scientific conferences; "Roots" joins a readers' circle interpreting Marx anew; and "Le Monde diplomatique" (Oslo) works out in cyberspace. [more]

Stories that products tell

"Blätter" purges itself of its inner car; "Esprit" discovers in Lebanon a nascent Arab multiculturalism; "Wespennest" revisits Jugoslavija; "Dilema veche" quotes Herta Müller on the selfishness of "cultural resistance"; "Kulturos barai" compares notes with Bulgarian intellectual Ivaylo Ditchev; "Arche" anthologizes Slovakia for Belarusian readers; and "Du" explores the transformations of Tilda Swinton. [more]

Concrete touched by Mies

"New Humanist" takes the ism out of Humanism; "Merkur" calls for collective responsibility; "Host" discusses modernism with novelist Simon Mawer; "Studija" looks at the shimmering layers of Latvian abstract art; "Mittelweg 36" analyses the brave new world of the elderly; "NLO" reads Solzhenitsyn, anti-progressivist warts and all; "Arena" questions some persistent myths about human trafficking; "Edinburgh Review" says the party is over in austerity Scotland; "Revista Crítica" examines memory and representation in post-dictatorships; and "Sens Public" embraces the Biblical paradox. [more]

I decide how I live my Islam

"Blätter" lets a German Muslim speak for herself; "Dilema veche" ridicules Romanian kowtowing to French racism; "Esprit" and "Reset" come out strongly against the burqa ban; "Hungarian Quarterly" predicts minority politics will top Hungary's European presidential agenda; "NZ" talks to writer Mavis Gallant about the futility of revolutions; "Glänta" converses with poets who refuse to speak; and "dérive" wakes up urbanists to the suburbanization of the planet. [more]

"I never watch television"

"Soundings" doubts the official discourse of military heroism; "Vikerkaar" finds plenty of liberty, some equality, but very little fraternity; "Index" talks to Daniel Barenboim about music and censorship; "Ord&Bild" asks if the TV drama is the new and better novel; "Le Monde diplomatique" (Oslo) argues that Wikileaks punctures the myth of the death of journalism; "Kulturos barai" recalls the intellectual force of Hungarian samizdat; "Osteuropa" watches Poland and Russia come together over Katyn; and "Syn og Segn" is embarrassed by Stoltenberg's fawning upon Obama. [more]

Varicoloured stacks of indignation

"Critique and Humanism" watches the democracy of opinion in action; "Esprit" finds uses for the pessimism of Ivan Illich; "Merkur" administers a potent dose of liberalism; "Blätter" urges the Left to reclaim progress; "Samtiden" is cautiously optimistic about the European project; "Reset" sees Muslim social networking taking off; "Ny Tid" asks whether Wikileaks can trigger political change; and "Lettera Internazionale" journeys to a strange country. [more]

The many, messy histories

"New Humanist" sees no humanitarian solutions to political crises; "Fronesis" asks who the People are; "Osteuropa" examines the gaffe-prone politics of European identity; "Dilema veche" says leaving Romania is the most effective form of protest; "L'Homme" revisits 19th-century arguments for the abolition of prostitution; "Arena" questions the impact of the Swedish Sex Purchase Act; "Le Monde diplomatique" (Oslo) avoids another story of western selflessnes; and "Studija" welcomes a timely exhibition of Soviet-era painting. [more]

Performative biographism

"Passage" finds contemporary Danish literature is all about me, me, me; "Vikerkaar" offers a perspective on contemporary European literature; "Mittelweg 36" asks who is authorized to speak about rape; "Revista Crítica" argues that trafficking laws omit the crucial factor of citizenship; "Gegenworte" observes art and science converge in the study of living systems; "Res Publica Nowa" takes a dispassionate approach to political debate; "Springerin" sees artists failing to respond to Right culture; and "Dilema veche" explains why in Romania only the mad refuse a bribe. [more]

The grandmother of mass communication

"Index on Censorship" celebrates freedom on the airwaves; "New Humanist" commends the old-fashioned virtue of paying attention; "Blätter" digs for the moral source of human rights; "Merkur" launches a Luhmann-inspired attack on coalition politics; "Osteuropa" rescues a great Soviet composer from oblivion; "NZ" attempts an anti-history of Stalinism; "Dialogi" convenes a rethink on copyright; and "Le Monde diplomatique" (Oslo) unveils another cartoon controversy. [more]

The better secularism

"The Hungarian Quarterly" finds self-interest at work in US policy on Hungary; "Osteuropa" says home is not where Jobbik is; "Transit" seeks the better secularism; "Blätter" considers Obama's worst-case climate scenario; "Varlik" enrols at the Nazim Hikmet University; "Akadeemia" reads Wittgenstein and Heisenberg; "Merkur" sees in theatre proof of Germans' cultural citizenship; and "Studija" welcomes the new simplicity in contemporary Latvian painting. [more]

The art of motorcycle tolerance

"Mittelweg" 36 publishes the correspondence between Hannah Arendt and Leni Yahil; "Edinburgh Review" admires Tokyoites' immunity to noise; "Kritika & Kontext" remembers Slovak poet and dissident Juraj Spitzer; "Dialogi" refuses to gush about the European Capital of Culture; "dérive" pushes for participatory art in urban development; "Esprit" goes beyond the painting chimpanzee; "Le Monde diplomatique" (Oslo) says Mani Pulite was no more than a dusting down; and "Dziejaslou" writes on radiation and vanishing memory. [more]

African football's final hurdle

"Magyar Lettre" writes on and from the borderless city of Pécs; "Host" munches on the literary Big Apple; "A Prior" takes a reflective turn; "Blätter" cheers for Bafana Bafana; "Dilema veche" sheds no tears for Romanian civil servants; "Arena" says Swedish foreign policy is a solo show; "Reset" tells the Lega Nord to get off its patch; "Osteuropa" looks at images of old age in eastern Europe; "NLO" deconstructs the open-closed dichotomy; "Kulturos barai" finds itself in a mock democracy; and "Syn og Segn" uncovers nationalisms in the Eurovision Song Contest. [more]

The Armageddon-obsessed superstructure

"Mute" puts the brake on the apocalyptic tendency; "Vikerkaar" rocks to the sound of China's ascent; "Wespennest" sees more than the tip of the literary iceberg; "Glänta" reaches for its gun; "Dialogi" asks where all the feminists went; "Samtiden" heals the feminist rift; "Arche" seeks a post-Soviet "genius urbis"; "NZ" explores municipal governance in a globalized world; and "New Humanist" says debunk the denialists, but beware of dogmatism. [more]

Rituals of outrage

"Sarajevo Notebook" sees no end to the post-socialist beginning; "Polar" responds to critics of the kleptocratic state; "Blätter" tells social democrats where to go; "Host" talks to Slovak novelist Pavol Rankov; "Springerin" considers opera's strictures to be just the ticket; "Merkur" discovers Schopenhauer's cuddly side; "Critique & Humanism" clarifies what analytic philosophy isn't; and "Dilema veche" finds family values alive and well in Romania. [more]

The elixir of open society

"Fronesis" watches the Third Way come full circle; "Mittelweg 36" admires the socio-moral backbone of late Dahrendorf; "Osteuropa" reports on Ukraine's stigmatized AIDS sufferers; "Res Publica Nowa" finds clan mentalities ruling Polish journals; "Sens Public" pins its hopes on a new world creole; "Arena" says enough of the net mob; "Le Monde diplomatique" (Oslo) gets behind the new digital commons; "Studija" eschews global for local art; and "Vikerkaar" bores of a postmodernism devoid of dialectical aggro. [more]

The bell-curve-of-yodelling idea

"The Hungarian Quarterly" discovers an infantilized society; "Index on Censorship" confronts next generation censorship; "Multitudes" hacks into the ideology of creation and copyright; "Blätter" adds an historical irony to the debate on Islam and democracy; "Soundings" detects creeping IQism; "RiLi" talks to Toni Negri about "Commonwealth"; "Dilema veche" wrestles with a resurgent Marx; "Kulturos barai" sees the end of democratic idealism; "Revista Crítica" says post-war does not mean peace for women; "Merkur" thinks coincidence is to blame for eastern German bitterness; and "Ord&Bild" has 101 suggestions for a royal poem. [more]

A cartoonist's code of conduct

"Varlik" reads cartoons; "Esprit" determines the state of Sarkozy; "Blätter" sounds the alarm over plans for a high-tech fortress Europe; "Reset" warns of equating Italian identity with Catholicism; "New Humanist" sees gender equality flushed down the loo; "Akadeemia" disputes the possibility of a universal definition of religion; "Kulturos barai" finds its way out of the labyrinth of history; and "Merkur" advocates the nonchalance of civilizations. [more]

Every bastard a king

"Mute" navigates the mediarchipelago; "Osteuropa" locates Khodorkovsky's Rubicon; "Samtiden" warns a species headed for self-destruction; "Ny Tid" goes gender neutral; "Dilema veche" considers fast-food religion and other less fashionable phenomena; "Vikerkaar" recommends social democracy as antidote to Estonia-ization; "Arche" has seen Lukashenka's economic policy somewhere before; "Revista Crítica" uses biography for empowerment; and "Ord&Bild" measures the distance between us and the living. [more]

Razors in the pockets

"Magyar Lettre" tells of blood-feuds and sworn virginity; "Intellectum" hears why forensic scientists need people skills; "Mittelweg 36" returns ideology to the centre of the Soviet everyday; "Arena" outsources the brain; "Naqd" acknowledges the resourcefulness of migrants; "Arche" finds Belarusian literature in a vacuum; "L'Espill" reprints classics of Catalan nationalism; "Le Monde diplomatique" observes the world-wide identity pandemic; "Akadeemia" hopes Pavlov's reflex can save solidarity; and "Springerin" reviles capitalist blood sports. [more]

Scare-stories of moral decay

"New Humanist" doesn't think video games vitiate the brain; "Blätter" argues for the Fourth Way; "Dilema veche" finds almost no reason to be optimistic about "Romania"; "Gegenworte" stands up for the Academy; "Esprit" welcomes the return to a pre-modern concept of ownership; "Merkur" says the German forest isn't what it seems; "Critique & Humanism" moves beyond stereotypes in the trafficking debate; "Dialogi" objects to the Disneyfication of '89; "Kulturos barai" believes there's more mileage in the Baltic Way; "Host" remembers when the world wore shoes made in Zlín; and "dérive" discovers the historical hotbed of the risk-taking bourgeoisie. [more]

Erring on the side of secrecy

"Index on Censorship" covers another chapter of the fruitless cartoon debate; "Glänta" pays attention to nature; "RiLi" picks over the debris of aviation's dreams; "Multitudes" calls on cognitarians of all lands; "L'Homme" misses women's lib in the 68 anniversary; "Edinburgh Review" takes Kafka's Prague down from the top shelf; "NZ" says Russian readers never had it so good as during Glasnost; "Osteuropa" doubts there's anything left in the pan-Slavic idea; "Mehr Licht" appeals to philosophy's transformative potential; and "Vikerkaar" uncovers the ancient origins of the telenovela. [more]

Charismatic megafauna

"Soundings" wonders where climate mainstreaming is heading; "Esprit" returns to earth; "Merkur" lampoons the CO2 dwarf; "Dilema veche" talks to Romania's impatient émigrés; "Transit" records the dilemmas of an editor; "Blätter" joins cause with the students; "Mittelweg 36" analyses the futility of political planning; "Akadeemia" doesn't miss the communists; and "Passage" reads modern Arabic literature. [more]

Extra-parliamentary opposition 2.0

"Blätter" declares a revolution of the everyday; "Lettre Internationale" (Denmark) writes the history of global movements after '89; "Lettera Internazionale" sees a parallel reality outlive its origins; "The Hungarian Quarterly" asks whether the dog was wagged in central Europe; "Osteuropa" charts the post-communist curve; "Arena" wrangles over the burka and the niqab in Sweden; "Reset" seeks to redress Italy's political gender imbalance; "Le Monde diplomatique" (Berlin) is impressed by Michele Bachelet, Chile's first female president; "Le Monde diplomatique" (Oslo) does not expect a Copenhagen deal; "Arche" explores the common history of Belarus and Lithuania; and "A Prior" reinvents Flaubert as the cognitive proletariat's prophet of doom. [more]

And ultimately to forget

"Merkur" wonders what the hell the Internet is good for; "Esprit" says it's not the economy, stupid; "Dilema veche" sees the intellectual baby thrown out with the bathwater; "Kritika & Kontext" proclaims Spinoza the first great thinker of secularism; "NZ" knows how to overcome fear; "Res Publica Nowa" finds history in the here and now; "Vikerkaar" considers forgetting; "Samtiden" watches Germany go back to the Prussian future; "Le Monde diplomatique" (Berlin) contemplates the strange formula "6-1+1"; "Roots" reviews Macedonian literature between tradition and innovation; "Ord&Bild" expands the Latin American library; and "Sodobnost" remarks that it's not just the West that's westernistic. [more]

Nuclear Bonapartism

"Wespennest" refuses to mellow with age; "Blätter" supports a culture flat-rate for the Internet; "New Humanist" rallies for the new atheists; "RiLi" dares to criticize the French nuclear state; "Le Monde diplomatique" (Oslo) says West Germans would rather have been reunited with Tuscany; "Kulturos barai" calls for a new resurgence, twenty years after '89; "Springerin" turns, turns, turns; "Host" portrays the typical Czech writer; and "Merkur" doesn't feel the need to be avant-garde. [more]

Shaken not toppled

"Mittelweg 36" cheers the libero of the '68 movement; "Osteuropa" sees Gagarin enter Putin's forcefield; "Polar" squints into the future of democracy; "Arena" counters general opinion on the Rwanda genocide; "Edinburgh Review" hears why Iraqi journalism is struggling; "dérive" exposes institutional racism in urbanism; "Revista Crítica" seeks pockets of solidarity in capitalism; and "Res Publica Nowa" asks "Are we East or West?" [more]

Trials of weakness

"Esprit" draws imperial parallels; "Mute" revives Yugoslav Black Wave cinema; "Le Monde diplomatique" (Berlin) disputes the myth of a white World War Two; "Fronesis" feels the cultural squeeze; "Multitudes" explains the nanny's dilemma; "Le Monde diplomatique" (Oslo) says fewer G's, more action; "Akadeemia" urges Europe to go with the flow; "Varlik" greets the return of the "Saturday Mothers"; and "Glänta" does sports. [more]

Let the bastard speak

"Index on Censorship" deplores western triumphalism; "Magyar Lettre" feels the stirrings of neighbourly emotion; "Blätter" believes in the sapience of politicians; "Soundings" says inequality kills; "NZ" analyses memory politics in Central Asia; "Kulturos barai" disappears into the network; "Host" philosophizes with filmmaker Pavel Göbl; and "Ny Tid" defends a broad concept of cultural journals. [more]

The moderate use of pleasure

"Le Monde diplomatique" (Berlin) points to the blind spots of the G20; "The Hungarian Quarterly" says informants weren't to blame; "Merkur" is not embarrassed by heroism; "New Humanist" re-reads postmodern classics; "Samtiden" votes for a more representative parliament; "RiLi" critiques the green movement with Gorz; "Le Monde diplomatique" (Oslo) gathers critical voices on Israel; "A Prior" combats amnesia with the moving image; and "Esprit" unravels Enlightenment paradoxes. [more]

The election campaign that wasn't

"Blätter" despairs of an election campaign devoid of content; "Varlik" hears opinions on the AKP's "Kurdish move"; "Arena" warns Sweden against the Danish trap of xenophobia; "Osteuropa" draws lessons from the Czech EU debacle; "Critique & Humanism" revisits the Batak controversy; "Passage" reads Derrida after Derrida; "Akadeemia" argues medical ethics is not just about morals; and "Mittelweg 36" says heroes are not as selfless as we like to think. [more]

Who bagged the common deckchair?

"L'Espill" says gender tests don't do justice; "Transit" debates the politics of diversity; "Wespennest" sets the record straight on '89; "Varlik" questions writers about the Ergenekon case; "RiLi" calls walls the last crutch of declining states; "Le Monde diplomatique" (Berlin) asks what remains of the commons; "Le Monde diplomatique" (Oslo) considers the termination of growth; "Reset" sees culture challenged in the new economic climate; and "Vikerkaar" explains Estonian history's wider significance. [more]

"If you can't look them in the eye..."

"Blätter" proves the relevance of newspapers; "Magyar Lettre" looks India in the eye; "Merkur" answers the propagandists of equality; "Osteuropa" remembers the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact; "Kulturos barai" relocates Europe's centre of mass killings; "Revista Critica de Ciencias Sociais" reads survivor literature; "Akadeemia" sees the funny side to Marxist-Leninism; "Springerin" interviews Roberto Esposito; and "Artistas Unidos Revista" talks to European theatre critics. [more]

Pirates, puritans and tragic humanists

"New Humanist" talks to Terry Eagleton about reason, faith and revolution; "Le Monde diplomatique" (Berlin) lambasts bastard Keynesianism; "Esprit" sails the pirate infested waters of the Internet; "Arche" articulates a Belarusian multiculturalism; "NZ" searches in vain for the seat of Russian identity; "Blätter" says the fight over MON 810 is about more than a few acres of corn; "dérive" shows the dual function of one-way streets; "Ord&Bild" maps the crisis of the "Volvo nation"; and "Host" finds French eroticism crueler than Czech. [more]

Gentle, seductive oppression

"Multitudes" allies cautiously with Google; "Gegenworte" goes online with science; "Lettera internazionale" criticizes a media that does not mediate; "Reset" wonders what the Pope is up to; "Osteuropa" says Orthodoxy isn't what the West thinks it is; "Merkur" doubts that morality goes without saying; "L'Homme" discusses patronyms and matronyms; "Varlik" summarizes Turkish literary trends; "FA-art" revisits Poland's postmodernism debate; and "Mute" sums up the first 5000 years of debt. [more]

So what's our problem?

"Hungarian Quarterly" divines the future of the forint; "Index on Censorship" gives libel law a bad press; "Samtiden" doubts whether Norwegian police women are any freer with the hijab; "Le Monde diplomatique" (Berlin) applies the belt to Europe's cordon sanitaire; "Mittelweg 36" sees solidarity outgrow the nation; "Roots" says yes to Europe, but not at any cost; "Kulturos barai" does not dismiss the idea of a new Lithuanian Grand Duchy; "Le Monde diplomatique" (Oslo) calls the European elections a farce; "Rili" wants to keep the market out of universities; and "Fronesis" explains what 2°C means in an expertocracy. [more]

Happy birthday, Mr Habermas

"Host" talks to a Zionist advocate of the two-state solution; "Blätter" celebrates Jürgen Habermas' eightieth; "Ord&Bild" hears voices; "Esprit" chastises Europe for its political cowardice; "Edinburgh Review" punctures some myths of Scottishness; "Akadeemia" fathoms Estonian identity; "Osteuropa" puts Moldova on the political map of Europe; "Arena" walks the fine line between art and crime; "Merkur" analyses the neurocapitalist self; and "Varlik" tires of jumping visa hurdles. [more]

In monads' land

"Wespennest" tries to make sense of Italian affairs; "Reset" invokes a higher, cosmopolitan power; "Dialogi" explores Jewish-Christian relations; "Le Monde diplomatique" travels Albania's expensive new motorway; "New Humanist" reads a God book of a different order; "Esprit" re-considers sperm and egg donors' right to anonymity; "Glänta" watches 49 hours of censored film; "Springerin" choreographs knowledge; "Blätter" is not celebrating the sixtieth anniversary of the German constitution; "Lettera internazionale" prepares for a new world-system; and "Vikerkaar" reads Estonia's parallel histories. [more]

Advanced profligate capitalism

"Merkur" prefers parsimonious over profligate capitalism; "Dilema veche" stares into a widening gap; "Polar" articulates a materialist ecology; "Kulturos barai" talks to Biennale artist Zilvinas Kempinas; "NZ" warns of memory-shapers; "Osteuropa" historicizes the conflict between state and individual; "Arche" reconstructs the short life of the Belarusian Democratic Republic; and "Host" says it's all in the handwriting. [more]

A kind of Tory communist

"RiLi" reads Hobsbawm and talks to Fraser; "Le Monde diplomatique" (Oslo) calls communists and liberals brothers in faith; "Arena" appeals for a more courageous Islam debate; "Reset" wants a rejuvenation of the Italian opposition; "Lettera internazionale" locates American frontier mentality today; "Sens Public" is still optimistic about Obama; "Mittelweg 36" seeks the Other of the creative city; "Kritika & Kontext" psychologizes evil; "Akadeemia" archives Estonian identity; and "Magyar Lettre" reads Romanian fiction freed from Cold War cartography. [more]

The habitats of superheroes

"Blätter" says sixty years of Nato is enough; "The Hungarian Quarterly" asks where the West was when the Wall fell; "Res Publica Nowa" debates the aesthetics of freedom post '89; "Kulturos barai" sees Lithuanian music reflected in a broken mirror; "dérive" compares Metropolis to Gotham City; "Le Monde diplomatique" (Berlin) is not taken in by gene-fetishism; "Historein" finds twin cities backfiring on Brussels; "Merkur" gets excited about the subsidiarity principle; "Multitudes" resists the "subjectivization" of justice; and "Vikerkaar" looks right of Berlusconi. [more]

Let's consider cute

"Index" isn't sure it knows obscenity when it sees it; "Dilema Veche" puts morality back in business; "Osteuropa" salutes the producers of Lenin busts 20 years after '89; "Le Monde diplomatique" (Berlin) follows the vodka trail; "Wespennest" tells stories from the Wild East; "Mute" exhumes the human; "Esprit" meets Homo numericus; "Le Monde diplomatique" (Oslo) dreads the seventy hour week; "Varlik" discusses the Turkish military's urge to intervene; "Akadeemia" sees artificial man only a step away; and "Semicerchio" asks what's next for Italian poetry. [more]

What's the gender of the crisis?

"New Humanist" goes on the trail of the red pilgrims; "Glänta" philosophizes the file-sharing debate; "Blätter" worries about the concept of the "male breadwinner"; "NZ" defines life in Russia Inc.; "Merkur" detects a strange, reciprocally parasitic complementarity; "Samtiden" finds a good word for capitalism; "Arche" speculates about the EU's new Belarus policy; "A Prior" practices the art of conversation; "Host" gets into steampunk; "Kulturos barai" publishes European histories; and "Ord&Bild" compares humans, cyborgs, transhumans, humanoids, androids, actroids and other forms of... being. [more]

In defence of generalism

"Esprit" defends the generalist cultural journal; "Res Publica Nowa" sends out a wake-up call to the arts; "Arena" asks why nobody mentions 1982; "Mittelweg 36" discusses sexual violence and soldierliness; "Le Monde diplomatique" (Berlin) counts the small change of participation; "Revolver Revue" objects to peddlers of the Prague Spring; "Le Monde diplomatique" (Oslo) focuses on resistance in film; "Vikerkaar" learns from an historical accident; "Revista Crítica" listens to the subtext of manguebeat; "Greek Political Science Review" remembers a "Greek Marxist"; and "Akadeemia" reproaches extinction theorists. [more]

Comparing cultural capital(s)

"Kulturos barai" watches Linz turn from smalltown to cultural metropolis; "Blätter" calls for a collective European politics of memory; "Osteuropa" sees the dawn of Great Russia; "Merkur" doubts the benefit of hindsight; "Ny Tid" follows a reluctant EU president; "Varlik" talks to Turkish poets about their support for the Palestinians; "Springerin" asks if there is art without a market; "Akadeemia" disapproves of hedonistic students; and "Transit" lights the way in climate politics. [more]

Hug a reactor!

"Lettre Internationale" (Denmark) makes a stunning comeback; "New Humanist" watches the greens go nuclear; "Roots" minds the map; "Varlik" saves world literature from Google; "Esprit" says no Social Europe without a European public sphere; "Osteuropa" warns against "The Hungary Effect"; "Dilema veche" exhumes Ceausescu's one good quality; "Arche" discusses democracy Lukashenko-style; "L'Homme" describes the crisis of masculinity as a permanent condition; "Le Monde diplomatique" (Berlin) questions the Greek myth; and "Le Monde diplomatique" (Oslo) points to the Greek example. [more]

Let unity blossom!

"Blätter" doubts the existence of the informed investor; "The Hungarian Quarterly" recommends laying down the quill; "Edinburgh Review" talks to Tracey Emin; "Lettera internazionale" endorses Mediterranean union; "Mittelweg 36" misses emotion in Habermas; "Merkur" explores the political semantics of trust; "Reset" puts citizens at the centre of climate politics; "Ord&Bild" talks to Mike Davis; "dérive" follows the traces of invisible work; "Kulturos barai" goes green in the face of urban development; "Dialogi" thinks culture is more than a song and a dance; and "Gegenworte" turns to the visual. [more]

Secular noise reduced to a whisper

"Index on Censorship" investigates what Bush-Cheney did to civil liberties; "Esprit" welcomes America's first Chicagoan president; "Arena" asks whether there will be a Left after capitalism; "Le Monde diplomatique" (Oslo) writes Bush's epitaph; "Samtiden" scrutinizes racism in Norway; "Dilema veche" calls for a debate on anti-Semitism in Romania; "Osteuropa" weighs up causes and effects of the Georgian war; "Le Monde diplomatique" (Berlin) reports on parallel realities in Israel; and "Magyar Lettre Internationale" prefers literary canons in the plural. [more]

The gothic way

"Arche" reacts to being censored yet again; "Merkur" sees Russia turn from historical amnesia to gothic morality; "Kulturos barai" comments on the Kundera case; "Blätter" solves Obama's dilemma; "Ny Tid" finds the Turkish PM more Bush than Obama; "Host" talks to the referee of American poetry; and "Critique & Humanism" surveys modern Bulgarian philosophy. [more]

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

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"

Merkur contours the "Berlin Republic"; Transit tracks the emergence of the radical Right in Poland; Le Monde diplomatique (Berlin) defies the state of emergency; Revolver Revue remembers hippies in the East; Ord&Bild debates the pros and cons of a national literary canon; Akadeemia digs up the past; Kulturos barai discusses matters (almost) serious; and Wespennest discovers India. [more]

"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]