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Thursday 15th October

Lifewriting: Herta Müller’s journey

Lyn Marven, 15 October 2009
The German-Romanian recipient of the Nobel literature prize eludes readers, media - and translators
Sunday 23rd August

Banksy in Bristol

Tina Beattie, 23 August 2009
The enigmatic urban artist Banksy's return to his home city is a triumph of liberating dissent  
Thursday 13th August

Antichrist: the visual theology of Lars Von Trier

Tina Beattie, 13 August 2009
The Danish filmmaker uses image as a "celluloid icon" to explore the depths of the Christian unconscious
Tuesday 28th July

Ingmar Bergman and Sweden: an epoch’s end

Birgitta Steene, 28 July 2009
The great filmmaker's bond with his homeland was conflictual as well as intimate 
Sunday 26th July

Youssef Chahine, the life-world of film

Tarek Osman, 26 July 2009
The passing of a great filmmaker of Alexandria and Egypt casts light on his country’s journey (archive)
Thursday 23rd July

The moon landing: an openDemocracy symposium

David Hayes, 23 July 2009
In 1969, our authors commented on a "giant leap for mankind". A tour of openDemocracy's archives
Friday 3rd July

Pina Bausch: dancing the times

Julia Dover, 3 July 2009
A tribute to the radical choreographer who died on 30 June 2009 (archive)
Wednesday 24th June

A new politics? Move out of Westminster...

David Hayes, 24 June 2009
...and let light, air, ideas, energy and people into a modern parliament
Tuesday 17th February

Beirut and contradiction: reading the World Press Photo award

Mai Ghoussoub, 17 February 2009
The writer and Saqi publisher died on 17 February 2007. Her last article - on Beirut - is here. Plus: memory trio, and life journey
Friday 30th January

Sniper under seige

Habib Ahmadzadeh, 30 January 2009
A short, mesmerising story from Tehran about a sniper and his target. It could have been told yesterday, but is in fact a flashback to the Iran-Iraq War

John Updike: singing America

James Schiff, 30 January 2009
The death of a writer whose generous yet exacting eye mapped an era is a profound loss
Thursday 22nd January

Susan Sontag: holding herself to account

Angela McRobbie, 22 January 2009
The American writer's early diaries map a burning passion for life, ideas and the desired other
Monday 19th January

Entropa: art of politics, heart of a nation

19 January 2009
A Czech artist’s Europe-wide hoax stirred outrage in Bulgaria. Why that's good news
Friday 28th November

Claude Lévi-Strauss at 100: echo of the future

Dan Sperber, 28 November 2008
The pioneering anthropologist's ideas still inform understanding of the human mind and its cultures
Wednesday 22nd October

Roberto Saviano: an Italian dissident

Geoff Andrews, 22 October 2008
"Gomorrah", a fearless anatomy of Napoli's mafia, also exposes the new face of global crime    
Wednesday 1st October

Black glove/white glove: revisiting Mexico's 1968

Donald Nicholson-Smith, 1 October 2008
The pre-Olympics Tlatelolco massacre forty years ago remains a site of struggle (archive)
Thursday 21st August

The dark (k)night of a postmodern world

Tina Beattie, 21 August 2008
The Dark Knight offers - via Slavoj Zizek - a bleak insight into democracy's post-9/11 moral void
Sunday 10th August

A prayer and a poem

Mahmoud Darwish, 10 August 2008

"Everything ends in one minute." Palestine's national poet is dead, his words survive and burn (archive)

 

 

Thursday 7th August

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: the line within

Roger Scruton, 7 August 2008

The prophetic message of Alexander Solzhenitsyn transcends the circumstances that gave rise to it

 

Plus: Memorial's tribute, Evgeny Morozov's cyber-war, and the Harvard address


 

Monday 4th August

A world split apart

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, 4 August 2008
The true project of the great Russian writer was spiritual rather than political
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