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True Things on a Half Page
the Editors
Introducing the Seifenblasen series
Seifenblasen
Everyone Is Everyone Now
Schayan Riaz
On the new Apple TV show “Pluribus”
Seifenblasen
Dead Already
Fabian Wolff
On “Null” by Szczepan Twardoch
Seifenblasen
Schlock and Awe
Julia Bosson
Ben Ratskoff on the immersive traumatization at the Nova Exhibition
Interview
162 Tons of Ammunition
Yossi Bartal
A German metals conglomerate profits from another war of destruction
Report
Two Kinds of Staatsräson
Jürgen Zimmerer
How Germany uses the singularity of the Holocaust to limit liability for its colonial crimes
Analysis
The Bitter Tears of Klaus Biesenbach
Ben Miller
How Germany’s cultural elite finds the opinion of Jewish artists hard to bear
Commentary
The Bomb on Time: To Gaza, by Way of Cologne
Yossi Bartal
How weapons continue to be shipped to Israel through Cologne
Report
Daughter Issues
Nora Osagiobare
The agony and ecstasy of German literature’s Bachmann Prize
Fiction
Chronicle of a Single Day
Leyb Goldin
Hunger eats away at body and mind in the starving Warsaw ghetto
Fiction
Stickers Against Germany
Michael Sappir
The antideutsch youth papering cities in pro-Israel stickers
Analysis
I Once Had a Home
Canberk Köktürk
A writer visits his hometown and explores the legacy of guest workers in Germany
Essay
Father and Son
Mitch Speed
On “Friendly Fire” by Klaus Fried
Seifenblasen
Pathless Land
Fabian Wolff
On “I Am Alive and You Are Dead” by Emmanuel Carrère
Seifenblasen
Logging Off
Julia Bosson
On “The Right to Oblivion” by Lowry Pressly
Seifenblasen
The Boy Who Cried Wolf
Eva Menasse
Philipp Peyman Engel, the Feuilleton section, and the power to decide who is Jewish in Germany
Analysis
Berlin Dispatch: Ghosts
Alexander Schnickmann
In his third column, Alexander Schnickmann is ghosted by his landlord, and searches for an end to the haunting
Dispatch
Bait and Switch
Mitch Speed
Painting, censorship, and the legacy of Joe Chialo, Berlin’s Senator for Culture and Social Cohesion
Essay
Structures That Must Be Separated
Cuso Ehrich
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Levin Reichmann
Responding to Towards a Non-Carceral Anti-Antisemitism The concept of “carceral anti-antisemitism” appears
Letter
Two Years of War in Sudan
Meret Weber
A case for diasporic solidarity
Analysis
The Green Drop
Ron Mieczkowski
On “The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea” by Yukio Mishima
Seifenblasen
Through a Mirror, Darkly
Marianne Dautrey
,
Aurélia Kalisky
Responding to Tsedek!’s About a Poster In a world turned upside down,
Letter
Reclaiming Resistance
Olga Sara Rozenblum
Responding to Tsedek!’s About a Poster
Letter
Eyes Wide Shut
Sham Jaff
A Turkish diva in the land of Hitler and Beethoven
Essay
About a Poster
Tsedek!
How an image of a far-right TV host ignited an antisemitism controversy in France
Intervention
Can Anti-Antisemitism be Rescued?
Hannah Tzuberi
Responding to “Towards a Non-Carceral Anti-Antisemitism”
Letter
The Duty of the State
Nimrod Flaschenberg
Responding to “Towards a Non-Carceral Anti-Antisemitism”
Letter
Consolations
Julia Bosson
On “War and Peace”, by Leo Tolstoy
Seifenblasen
Germany is Not Your Friend
Schayan Riaz
The Berlinale’s reputation as a political film festival gets put to the test
Report
Leave Early
Ron Mieczkowski
On “The Brutalist” directed by Brady Corbet
Seifenblasen
From Auschwitz to Skyscrapers
Guli Dolev-Hashiloni
How a group of Jewish concentration camp survivors became pimps, drug dealers, and criminals in postwar Frankfurt
History
Towards a Non-Carceral Anti-Antisemitism
Yael Attia
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Emily Dische-Becker
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Daniel Loick
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Anthony Obst
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Vanessa E. Thompson
Why repressive measures fail to combat antisemitism – and what strategies work better
Intervention
Berlin Dispatch: Quiet
Alexander Schnickmann
In the second dispatch, Alexander Schnickmann searches for silence amid the rhythms of the city
Dispatch
If You Don’t Want to Talk About Racism, Keep Your Mouth Shut
Achan Malonda
Unwinding the myth of German democracy
Forum
No Wall, Only Fire
Simon Strick
A postmortem in three movements
Forum
The Dammbruch Means Continuity
Mina Jawad
When historical outrages are par for the course
Forum
Men Without Qualities
Ben Miller
The uninspiring leaders vying for Germany’s vote
Forum
The Firewall Next Time
By the Editors
How did we get here?
Forum
Berlin Dispatch: January
Alexander Schnickmann
In his first dispatch, deep in Berlin winter, Alexander Schnickmann begins on the dating app Grindr and ends up with friendship.
Dispatch
The Autocrat’s Handbook
Yelizaveta Landenberger
How Slovak democracy is transforming into autocracy
Analysis
Language Acquisition
Julia Bosson
Stammering towards one another
Editor’s Letter
The War is Over, And
Ghayath Almadhoun
Two poems by the Syrian-Palestinian-Swedish writer Ghayath Almadhoun
Poetry
The Conditions for Inner Exile
Emily Dische-Becker
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Julia Bosson
Emily Dische-Becker on the Berlin Senate’s proposed budget cuts to the cultural sector
Discussion
This World Is Not My Home
Millay Hyatt
A child of American missionaries in Germany searches for home between heaven and earth
Essay
Facing Ourselves
Ben Mauk
Sarah Schulman discusses what contemporary protest movements can learn from the history of AIDS activism
Interview
Reconsidering the Oyster
Maria Wollburg
The pleasure and the violence between two shells
Essay