We live in an era of genre. Browse through TV shows of the last decade to see what I mean: Horror, sci-fi, fantasy, superheroes, futuristic dystopias…. Take a casual glance at the burgeoning global film franchises or merchandising empires. Where...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNw9x53Ybos The Middle East is hardly the world’s most harmonious region, and it only gets more fractious if you add in South Asia and the Mediterranean. But there’s one thing on which many residents of that wide geographical span can...
In June of 2014, Harvard University’s Houghton Library put up a blog post titled “Caveat Lecter,” announcing “good news for fans of anthropodermic bibliopegy, bibliomaniacs, and cannibals alike.” The occasion was the scientific determination that a book in the Houghton’s...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPpp1pT2Whs Listen to this episode as a podcast under https://cba.media/666825 Security is on everybody’s minds and at the top of the political agenda across Europe, but if we are to delve into this question, we have to address a paradox:...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WGOTOPkJjI In 1849, a little over 175 years ago, Edgar Allan Poe was found dead in a Baltimore gutter under mysterious circumstances very likely related to violent election fraud. It was an ignominious end to a life marked by hardship,...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqWUuYTcG-o In 2006, David Foster Wallace published a piece in the New York Times Magazine headlined “Roger Federer as Religious Experience.” Even then, he could declare Federer, “at 25, the best tennis player currently alive. Maybe the best ever.” Much...
When the sclerotic political and economic system of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) collapsed in November 1989 after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the full speed economic transformation towards the market system of West Germany led to unprecedented disruptions...
Eastern European Independent Journalist Fund An urgent lifeline for journalists from Ukraine, Russia and Belarus Eurozine News Item The pace of media consumption has accelerated in the past few decades. News cycles have become ever shorter since – a tendency...
Why are books being banned and their authors not permitted to meet with readers in today’s Belarus? Why are there artists who cannot exhibit their works, and whose concerts are banned? Why do writers in increasing numbers find themselves behind...
Unmittelbar nach dem Einmarsch Russlands in die Ukraine im Jahr 2022 schien es, dass sich alles verändert hatte und nie wieder so sein würde wie zuvor. Als Polen, das von einer ausgesprochen flüchtlingsfeindlichen Regierung geführt wird, seine Tore für Millionen...
