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Check out The Auflauf, a new substack of Berlin books. Our first course: @mathildegm.bsky.social on Reimann, @brynstole.bsky.social on Clark, & me on Maci. @ajbwells.bsky.social is in the kitchen too helping cook and dish up lit crit, goss & conversations: theauflauf.substack.com

Have all the haters just forgotten about freemasonry?

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A few thoughts about the NYT critics shakeup: Theater is one of the hardest of all disciplines to cover as a critic (or reporter). You need to know its language and history. And there's a ton you can and should do to educate yourself. But you can never "catch up." You can't see what you didn't see.>

On Florentina Holzinger’s latest opera, by @return2sanders.bsky.social‬

A handsome looking novel called Poor Ghost! with endorsements from Claire Messud, Lara Williams, Wendy Erskine, Tim MacGabhann, Julianne Pachico, and Aidan Cottrell-Boyce

My debut novel, Poor Ghost! is out today with @sceptrebooks.bsky.social

It’s about class, mourning, love, fathers, Manchester, and lots of other stuff.

I’m proud of it and I hope you’ll enjoy it too.

Dass der Zentralrat besorgt ist vom Beschluss der @die-linke.de, die IHRA-Arbeitsdefinition abzulehnen und die Jerusalem Declaration (JDA) anzunehmen, kann man ihm glauben. Aber seine Argumentation gegen die JDA ist so nicht haltbar. Vier Punkte. 1/ x.com/ZentralratJu...

„Dass die IHRA-Definition von Regierungen angenommen wurde, ist weitgehend Ergebnis politischer Kampagnen von Akteuren im Einklang mit der israelischen Regierung. Es gibt ausreichend Belege, dass die IHRA v. illiberalen Kräften instrumentalisiert wird, um Freiheiten & Menschenrechte zu untergraben.“

Bait and Switch – the Diasporist So what about Chialo’s legacy? No reasonable person could say that his work has consolidated the strength of culture or fostered “social cohesion.” To the contrary, animosity and mistrust now reign be...

An interesting layered take on Joe Chialo and the dismantling of funding for progressive arts projects in Berlin, plus whether mockery helps.
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Berlin Launch: Elegy, Southwest - Lettrétage Reading & Discussion Join us on May 9th for the launch of „Elegy, Southwest“ , the hotly anticipated second novel by Australian-born Berlin author Madeleine Watts. Watts will be joined by local critic...

Book launch in Berlin tomorrow >>>

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Now get rid of the AfD policies and attitudes that the CDU/CSU has adopted.

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PARATAXE Symposium XVI = Antipodes: Down under in Berlin – the Australian & New Zealand authors of Berlin Draft program: 13:30: Kick-offWith Alexander Wells and Martin Jankowski 14:00 – 15:30: Panel 1 (in German)NEIGHBOURS. Encounters, translations, suggestions.Keynote: Prof. Anja SchwarzPanel: Joel Scott...

FULL LINEUP for our little festival of Australian and Aoteoroa/New Zealand literature in Berlin on May 24th!! Come see professors, poets, artists, & novelists (& me); come hear about Weiss & Bismarck's bastards & Sebald in the desert & multidirectional war memory >>

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Violence and the road: Vilay Khurana on The Passenger Seat - The Berliner In Vijay Khurana’s debut novel, The Passenger Seat, male friendship is all fun and games - until it isn’t.

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COME TO CURIOUS FOX TONIGHT TO SEE THIS LOVELY MAN BUT LESS IN MUD

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Brasch Words: Remembering a Berlin theatre that spoke truth to power - The Berliner In the year that would have marked Thomas Brasch's 80th birthday, two new plays that interpolate his work pose questions about the transgressive playwright's legacy.

great column on thomas brasch and berlin's political theater by @return2sanders.bsky.social in last month's Berliner mag >>
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In search of “Brodernism”: Where is this maximalist cult of difficulty? - The Berliner It's possible to read literature in translation and not fetishise it – we do it all the time.

in this month's Berliner mag, I waded in to the "brodernism" debate—and called time on the genre of anglophone literary criticism that was designed to go viral on Twitter >>

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The List Keepers More than 40 years after the start of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, the full scope of the toll AIDS took on the world of theater in New York remains difficult to access.

More than 40 years after the start of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, the full scope of the toll AIDS took on the world of theater in New York remains difficult to access.

Was für ein Grauen: Der Berliner Kulturzerstörer Joe Chialo soll lt. tagesschau offenbar Kultur-Staatsminister werden.

Liberec, Czech Republic: Axe used to damage memorial to Romani children who died during the Holocaust - Romea.cz - Everything about Roma in one place An unidentified perpetrator has damaged a memorial commemorating children of Romani origin who were murdered by the Nazis during the Second World War. The bronze plaque of the Liberec memorial has bee...

🪓 Outrage in the Czech Republic: Axe used to vandalize memorial to Romani children murdered during the Holocaust

📰 Full article: romea.cz/en/czech-rep...

John Fox obituary Co-founder of the Welfare State, a street theatre company that later moved on to community-related work

Rest in power, John Fox. Welfare State was a guiding light to a generation of theatre and performance-makers. 🏮

Amen

OpenAI Akademie: Berlin library assumes controversial new name - The Berliner Berlin's Stabi gets a new name: OpenAI to sponsor the Berlin library, now the "OpenAI Akademie" offering AI-generated book summaries.

With the money from the sponsorship, I hear the stabi’s going to have some decent food at last… www.the-berliner.com/english-news...

Harvard is obeying in advance. Absolute cowards.

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House of the Rising Hun | Alexander Wells In Budapest, the House of Terror museum is a physical embodiment of Viktor Orbán’s ambition to rewrite Hungary’s national myths along authoritarian lines.

Viktor Orbán's Hungary: scourge of the EU, role model for the US right. For @thebaffler.com, I wrote about how the Orbán regime seeks legitimacy by telling dodgy stories about the 20th century—stories not all so different from those that we've been telling in the West

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Manipulations of Historical Memory in Orbán’s Hungary In Budapest, the House of Terror museum is a physical embodiment of Viktor Orbán’s ambition to rewrite Hungary’s national myths along authoritarian lines.

Viktor Orbán wants to rewrite Hungary’s national myths. In this preview from our new issue (out next week) @ajbwells.bsky.social writes on the many fronts of the Fidesz party’s culture war.

House of the Rising Hun | Alexander Wells In Budapest, the House of Terror museum is a physical embodiment of Viktor Orbán’s ambition to rewrite Hungary’s national myths along authoritarian lines.

Fidesz wants to "substitute gulag for Auschwitz, to make ideas like redistribution and internationalism just as politically taboo as antisemitism and eugenics"

Such a great essay about Hungary's anti-communist memory culture by @ajbwells.bsky.social in @thebaffler.com

and they say transatlanticism is dead

Don‘t forget Harvard! Also now using IHRA to pacify the forces that be, intellectual integrity out the window!

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