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Hannah Arendt

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20 days ago

‘Space travel is queer’: the unstoppable film-maker skewering Bezos and Musk’s macho fantasies

She founded Nasa’s orchestra and has bounced heartbeats off the moon. Now Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stépanian has made a hilarious film taking issue with the tech bros’ dreams of celestial conquest

‘She’s a gr…

30 days ago

The Book of Records by Madeleine Thien review – a dazzling fable of migration

The adventures of great voyagers echo across centuries as a father and daughter flee from flooding in near-future China

The sea takes many forms in fiction. It was an adventure playground in Robert Lo…

76 days ago

Germany is now deporting pro-Palestine EU citizens. This is a chilling new step | Hanno Hauenstein

The country’s so-called political centre has licensed a new era of authoritarianism – to the AfD’s delight

A crackdown on political dissent is well under way in Germany. Over the past two years, insti…

3 months ago

Memories of a Catholic Girlhood by Mary McCarthy review – incurable sadness if bravely borne

Colm Tóibín introduces this welcome reprint of the US author and critic’s poignant account of orphanhood, first published in 1957

Mary McCarthy was a formidable, not to say frightening, figure in the …

The CIA Book Club by Charlie English review – chapter and verse as a weapon of war

A gripping study of the CIA smuggling operation to get banned books behind the iron curtain

In March 1984 Polish customs officers noticed a suspicious truck. It had arrived on an overnight ferry from …

‘It allowed us to survive, to not go mad’: the CIA book smuggling operation that helped bring down communism

From George Orwell to Hannah Arendt and John le Carré, thousands of blacklisted books flooded into Poland during the cold war, as publishers and printers risked their lives for literature

The volume’s…

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