Tag: germany

Columns

Yoko Tawada’s Enchanted World

Reed McConnell

October 31, 2022

The Japanese novelist productively unsettles her readers’ expectations.

Oozing Class

Alexander Wells

August 15, 2022

On the border-crossing German novelist Wolfgang Hilbig.

Dangerous as the Plague

Samuel Huneke

June 23, 2022

Anti-gay animus is nothing new.

What Makes Foreign Policy “Feminist”?

Rafia Zakaria

March 28, 2022

Germany’s leaders talk about a “feminist foreign policy” that requires more armaments.

How Empires Fall

Matt Wehmeier

August 19, 2021

On the Berlin Wall, the “August Coup,” and the decline of Great Powers

Nuding Out

Daniela Blei

July 29, 2021

In 1926, a crusade swept across Europe. In Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, and even stodgy England, some three million Europeans had reportedly dropped their drawers and flocked to a “nudity cult,” leading Popular Science Monthly to ask of its American readers: “Do We Wear ...

Brute Forces

The Baffler

July 30, 2020

Dispatches on police violence from around the world.

Crimes of Passion

Becca Rothfeld

April 23, 2020

The violent imagination of Heinrich von Kleist.

The Hannah Arendt Center’s Dark Thinking

John Ganz

October 25, 2017

The Hannah Arendt Center at Bard would seem an unlikely place to find a German nationalist speaking. And yet.