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Spending time with the dead

In its current issue on contemporary Latin American literature, Ord&Bild lives up to its name (‘Word&Image’). The cover and accompanying

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An exceptional editor: a tribute to Judith Vidal-Hall who reinvented Index magazine after the end of the Cold War

Judith Vidal-Hall was an original. Irrepressible, mischievous, with a delight in challenging convention, she remained wholly dedicated to the causes

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America’s political trauma | Eurozine

Gary Gerstle, historian and Paul Mellon Professor of American History Emeritus, Director of Research in American History and Emeritus Fellow

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Judith Vidal-Hall 1938–2025 | Eurozine

Eurozine is deeply saddened by the death of Judith Vidal-Hall, editor of Index on Censorship from 1993–2006 and a longstanding

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The missing Palestinians | Eurozine

The launch press conference for the 2025 Berlin Biennale, at the Sophiensäle in the city’s Mitte district, was filled to

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Symbiotic culture and repression | Eurozine

Vladimir Putin’s favourite exhibition, laconically called ‘Russia’, took centre stage in Moscow’s cultural scene from November 2023 to July 2024.

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Consciences of ecology | Eurozine

In an issue of Esprit entitled Consciences de l’écologie, Catherine Larrère looks at how the ecological thought of the social

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Let our political imaginations soar

In Blätter, Seyla Benhabib writes that Israel’s war on Hamas reflects three significant shifts in international relations: first, protectionism, imperialism

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Gaza and the age of impunity

Future historians looking back upon the Israel-Gaza conflict may see that it stands at the nodal point of three developments

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Displacement is an extra limb that I carry

During the horrifying, long stretch of the genocidal war on Gaza, we did not have the privilege or the time