Eva Hoffman

Eva Hoffman, author and essayist, has written three books on eastern Europe: Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language; Shtetl: The Life and Death of a Small Town in the World of Polish Jewry, and Exit Into History: A Journey Through the New Eastern Europe.

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Some thoughts on the psycho-geography of Europe’s free movement

Eastern European migration takes place in a very different context than it once did. What drives people to leave, and what drives them back again?

By Eva Hoffman

/ 24 Mar 2016

Iraq: no choice without cost

There are good and bad reasons to oppose the use of military force in Iraq. The bad reasons are to do so out of a kind of intellectual automatism, or

By Eva Hoffman

/ 3 Feb 2003