CULTURE
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‘To compose a sentence was to take a moral stance’
Slavenka was… irrepressible. I had been reading her for many years before we met. Her writing belonged among my first…
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From punk rebellion to happy consumerism
In China’s media-market nexus, alternative impulses are rarely extinguished: they are accelerated, monetised and returned as new pleasures. Chinese punk…
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Dispatch from Ukraine | Eurozine
It’s 9am on the fourth anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and in Ternopil, all the traffic has stopped.…
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Russia’s imprisoned mothers | Eurozine
In December 2025, the Russian Presidential Human Rights Council member Eva Merkacheva asked Vladimir Putin to perform a ‘holiday miracle’.…
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Iran’s freethinkers | Eurozine
When Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini ended his exile and flew to Iran in 1979, covering women with headscarves and pushing minorities…
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A moral compass: Slavenka Drakulić (1949–2026)
Slavenka Drakulić’s integrity was unshakeable. When she described a conflict, a society or a human predicament, she was not simply…
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Competing for the origin of life
For this is why not only lice, bedbugs, fleas and helminths, come into being as the guests and neighbours of…
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Palestine: A future to rebuild
The destruction of Gaza has remained strangely invisible, despite unfolding before a global audience, write Hamit Bozarslan, Anne-Lorraine Bujon and…
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Artur Dron on faith, hope and love
His first poetry collection at nineteen, his second at twenty-two, then a collection of award-winning prose, at twenty-five – the…
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A staggering reversal of assumptions
President Donald Trump’s unjustified and unjustifiable war against Iran has shown the fragility of the fossil fuel-based energetic order. At…
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