The therapists helping people break from organized religion; how far-right Christian influencers are luring men into misogyny; the dignity and defiance of Belarusian women; rewilding and its perils.
War writing and the breakdown of the ability to narrate; defending democracy versus defending territory; Hollywood and 9/11; Charlotte Delbo’s theatre of survival.
The journal Dialogi closed at the end of last year. Its editors reflect on the publication’s sixty-year history and why the challenges faced by a Slovenian magazine of culture and society proved insurmountable.
Lev Gudkov on the roots of fear in Russian society; translation as survival strategy in Soviet Kyiv; why the EU needs to get real on Belarus; what the Armenia–Iran relationship means for the South Caucasus.
Looking at what we have learned not to see: communist infrastructure; museums and mnemonic warriors; folklore and the spirit of community.
Protesting Croatia’s ‘manly’ prayer movement; questioning the benefits of AI psychotherapy; owning up to a chatbot relationship.
Portugal’s growing home insemination industry; 15 years of same-sex marriage; the ‘kingfishermen’ return to Portuguese rivers.
The Belgian journal marks 80 years of publishing by returning to debates central to its history, including: media and democracy, the prison system, mental health, and the politics of memory.
Eastern European memory politics today: why numbers wars are bad diplomacy; the commodification of communism; Russia’s civic memory cult; Lukashenka’s ahistorical limbo.
Queer, migrant and ethnic minority communities in Slovakia after ’89: homophobia and structural racism versus integration and upward mobility.
Horizons of the Turkish novel; dissident disappointments; communists real and false; the feminine street.
Leibniz’s Europe; why majority rule is relative; social chromatics off the scale; travels in post-capitalism.
Milan Kundera’s negligent mapping; Helsinki’s legacy; Latvia’s demographic suicide; Russia’s policing problem.
How AI is changing the nature of censorship; artificial intelligence versus historical truth; revisiting the UK government’s response to 7/7; missing Palestinians from this year’s Berlin Biennale.
Bankruptcy in nineteenth-century parables of capitalism; billionaires, bankruptcy and the American obsession with money; and why the refusal to accept the end makes life worse.
Parables of violence; memories of dictatorship; perversions of memory: Ord&Bild samples contemporary Latin American literature and photography.