The Black International
What kind of conspiracy is the European Union anyway? A Papist one, or a German one?
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Come in! The kettle’s on the boil!
Some of our new fellow Europeans don’t like the government knowing their business. Sure, they’re only human.
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Kneeling in the Ghetto
Former German chancellor Helmut Schmidt, now 94, insists that the proper attitude for his countrymen and women to adopt to Poland involves a continuing humility and patience.
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Against Theory
Noam Chomsky is unimpressed by the great minds of European postmodernism.
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The World Turned Upside Down
Kenan Malik talks to Princeton professor of modern European history Jonathan Israel about the Enlightenment and the connections between radical religion, democratic ideas and tolerance of difference of opinion.
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Press Button B
Terry Eagleton will have no truck with the modern world and its noise and its gadgets and its silly babbling. Fair play to him.
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A School for Booksellers
An institute founded by a scion of the Italian book distribution industry aims to arm the next generation of booksellers against the threat of being steamrollered by the online giants.
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C’est la meme chose
Some non-Anglo-Saxon cultures, and particularly the French, seem prone to national panic in the face of la globalisation. But rumours and fears of cultural extinction are greatly exaggerated.
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Poet, translator, patient, sinner
Oliver Bernard was a poet and an acclaimed translator of Rimbaud. He got up to a few other things as well.
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Lydia Davis wins International Man Booker
The American minimalist short story writer follows Ismail Kadare, Chinua Achebe, Alice Munro and Philip Roth.