Europe – Nomadics

September 21, 2017

“The Right to Indifference”?

“The Right to indifference” — is how the French daily Libération‘s editor Laurent Joffrin interprets the results of a recent poll which, he says, proves wrong both the far-right (& their spectre of imminent...

Aesthetics / Art Exhibition / Dada / Europe / Poetry

April 8, 2016

“DADA anders” Trailer

Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Hannah Höch, Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven exhibition in Zürich’s Museum Haus Konstruktiv

Europe / European History

July 23, 2015

Tariq Ali on Greece

Diary Tariq Ali LRB July 2015 In the early hours of 16 July, the Greek parliament voted overwhelmingly to give up its sovereignty and become a semi-colonial appendage of the EU. A majority of...

Economy / Europe

July 8, 2015

Piketty: “Germany Has Never Repaid Its Debts…

…It Has No Standing To Lecture Other Nations” In a forceful interview with German newspaper Die Zeit, the star economist Thomas Piketty calls for a major conference on debt. Germany, in particular, should not...

Europe / Poetry / Whatever

May 19, 2014

Europe, A Poem?

Just back from Europe — where the elections for the European Parliament are heating up — though “heat” may be the wrong image to conjure, or seems only appropriate for the most rightwing fascoid...

Book Launch / Book Review / Europe / Novel / Translation

March 28, 2014

Happy Hundredth Hrabal!

Today is the 100th B-day of the great Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal (1914-1997) &, by a quirk Hrabal would have approved of, yesterday the post man brought Hrabal’s Harlequin’s Millions, translated by Stacey Knecht...

Cyberworld / Europe / Intellectuals / Poet / Whatever

March 1, 2014

The Great European Digital FreakOut

Ever since past summer’s revelations by the man-who-should-get-the-Nobel-Peace-Prize of the NSA’s global digital snooping, the Europeans have been freaking out. This morning my beloved France Culture had an hour long program discussing or rather...

Celebration / Europe / European History / Homage / Language

September 20, 2013

Jacob Grimm — Tales &/of Words

The great German philologist Jacob Grimm died 150 years ago today. If you like dictionaries, you should check out what is still he greatest German language Wörterbuch — now online & available for free,...

Book Launch / Europe / Poetry / Talk / Translation

March 14, 2013

Today In NYC! Come & Hear! BURNING CITY!

Mar 14, 2013, 6:30pm | English Lounge (Room 4406) Burning City: Poems of Metropolitan Modernity Jed Rasula, Josh Schneiderman “The fascination of cities,” wrote Langston Hughes, “seizes me, burning like a fever in the...

Arab Culture / Arabic / Europe / Translation

June 4, 2012

Euro-Mediterranean Translation: a Mapping

Arab Literature (in English) brought my attention to this study of translation: Mapping Translation: Into and Out of Arabic by mlynxqualey The big study that resulted from a number of translation reports — into and out...