Europe

We Laughed, We Cried

Flann O’Brien’s triumph.

  • Roger Boylan

Left Behind

Romanticizing Germany's Urban Guerillas

  • Paul Hockenos

The Quiet Man

John McGahern’s Ireland.

  • Roger Boylan

France’s Revolt

Can the Republic live up to its ideals?

  • John R. Bowen

After the Double No

The EU’s best hope

  • Jan-Werner Müller

Who Owns Bruno Schulz?

Poland stumbles over its Jewish past.

  • Benjamin Paloff

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High Art in Low Times

Two new books on the cultural Cold War.

  • Catherine Gunther Kodat

Russia’s Quagmire

On ending the standoff in Chechnya.

  • Rajan Menon

The Chameleon

Does Joschka Fischer really believe in anything?

  • Paul Hockenos

Muslims and Citizens

France’s headscarf controversy.

  • John R. Bowen

Common Ground

An immigration crisis in the European Union.

  • Michael Standaert

Exporting Democracy

The UN and the rebuilding of Kosova.

  • Ralph Cintron
  • Stevan Weine
  • Ferid Agani

The Hard Road to Fascism

Today’s antiliberal revolt looks a lot like 1920s Europe.

  • Abbott Gleason

No Revolution Without Counterrevolution

On Arno Mayer’s The Furies: Violence and Terror in the French and Russian Revolutions.

  • Corey Robin

On Post-Fascism

Its central characteristic is hostility to universal citizenship.

  • G. M. Tamás

The Personal Is Not the Political

More than two decades after her death in 1975, Hannah Arendt has emerged as the political theorist of the post-totalitarian moment.

  • Seyla Benhabib

The Two Hundred Years War

The origins of conflict in Yugoslavia. 

  • G. M. Tamás

Uncle Franz’s Legacy

A personal history of two Germanies.

  • Vivian Rothstein

Spreading the Nationalist Virus

Yugoslavia was killed by toxic nationalism.

  • Michael Montgomery

Letters to the Editor: The Last Days of Bosnia?

  • Ivo Banac
  • Rabia Ali
  • Lawrence Lifschultz

A Strange Hybrid

A close look at post-Soviet commercial advertising reveals that market norms never really took hold—even among capitalists.

  • Svetlana Boym

The Last Days of Bosnia?

Historian Ivo Banac, once described as the “political conscience of modern Croatia,” on the roots of conflict in the former Yugoslavia.

  • Ivo Banac
  • Lawrence Lifschultz
  • Rabia Ali

Lost Lives

Portraits from the Velvet Revolution.

  • Helen Epstein
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