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Runner
From a short story appearing here for the first time in English
Translated by Jessica Cohen
More than half a kilometer lies behind you and still you show no physical signs, your…
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The Least and the Last of the Jews
Figuring the Jew in Postwar French Thought ‘Nous sommes tous des juifs allemands!’We are all German Jews. This is the famous slogan taken up by throngs of students during the…
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On Debt
The bible, we often hear, has little relevance to modern, metropolitan life. It records the myths and rituals of primitive men, who lived a hand-to-mouth existence and knew nothing…
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On the Track of Family History
There are some documents that, as a conscientious writer, I am glad to have read only after the publication of a novel, even though they are extremely interesting and contain…
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From Judaeophobia to Islamophobia
Nation-building and the construction of Europe
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Brno
Why Brno? A place, many would say, distinguished only by its lack of distinction, set at the very heart of Europe but always in the shadow of its mighty neighbour Vienna or its…
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Postcards from the Edge
Hello, there, After a long, weirdly warm Jerusalem winter spent in the presence of heavily armed soldiers and suspicious security guards — many Fridays a large white…
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Bridging the Two Cultures
Ernst Cassirer: The Last Philosopher of Culture
by Edward Skidelsky
Princeton University Press
Sitting on the judging panel for this year’s Wingate Literary prize, I noticed…
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A brief exchange on language, love and life.
BW: Steve Pinker - you’re an ‘academic superstar’. Your books are best-sellers; you frequently appear in the media (and are profiled in literary journals). In Europe —…
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Communal Singing
These days, when only the mentally ill, the professionally hired and the irrepressibly Welsh have the nerve to do it, it’s easy to forget there was a time when public singing was…
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