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No Reservations

By Marc-Olivier Bherer,

From “The ‘Noble Indian’: A Godsend for the Extreme Right,” published in Le Monde last July. Translated from the French by John Cullen. Sitting Bull was a Sioux chief who…

The Storyteller

By Harper’s Magazine, on April 15, 2019

Pierre Jarawan explores the evolution of identity and home in his debut novel Read More

At Last

By Olivier Kugler,

Echt Deutsch

By Yascha Mounk,

On a starry night in August 2015, Ranim Alsous and her three children set out across one of the deadliest straits of the Aegean Sea. Alongside fifty other refugees of…

Remains of the Day

By Christa Wolf, Katy Derbyshire,

By Christa Wolf (1929–2011), from One Day a Year, a journal that she kept each September 27 from 1960 until her death. The most recent volume will be published next month by…

The Emigrants

By Friedrich Trump,

From a letter written in 1905 by Friedrich Trump, Donald Trump’s grandfather, to Luitpold, prince regent of Bavaria. Trump had been ordered to leave Bavaria for failing to complete mandatory…

Europe’s Hamilton Moment

By Harper’s Magazine, on June 24, 2016

The euro and its discontents Read More

Cut With the Kitchen Knife

By Rosmarie Waldrop, Ben Lerner,

We conventionally use the period to punctuate a finished thought. But Rosmarie Waldrop, one of the most innovative poets in English, deploys the period as a rest, often musical, in…

Wilt Thou not Walk

By Dorothy Thompson,

I never knew just when I passed the border into Germany because no frontier official stopped me. I thought it odd that there should be a border warfare so recently…

There are Other Forces at Work

By John Darnielle,

1. On August 9, 1974, Richard Nixon became the first American president to resign from office. I was playing in the street in San Luis Obispo when I heard. I had…

Road of Bad Intentions

By Joseph Roth,

From an article written by Joseph Roth for the newspaper Neue Berliner Zeitung in 1921 and included in The Hotel Years, a collection of Roth’s journalism out last month from…

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