Twenty-five years after his cult TV series, Kir Royal, director Helmut Dietl has now come released a sort of ?sequel? for the big screen. Zettl focuses on the high-flying career of a ruthless media man in Berlin. As satire, however, the frigid figures in Zettl fail to warm up to viewers. ...
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What makes us happy?, the Atlantic asks. Outlook India celebrates the victory of secular politics in India. The Spectactor finds itself in the hour of the medievalist. The Economist explains why Perlentaucher is essential reading. Magyar Narancs asks what happened to May 8th in Hungary. In ResetDoc, Nasr Abu-Zayd explains why Afghan marriage laws have nothing to do with the Qur'an. And jazz is fading into the background in Poland.
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The Nouvel Obs features an interview with Imre Kertesz about survival after survival. The New York Review of Books celebrates the affluent and brilliant Madame de Stael. Tygodnik Powszechny welcomes the first film of a Stasiuk book. In the Guardian, Elaine Showalter asks why America's women writers are so notoriously underrated. Le Point profiles Dieudonne, who has declared his anti-Semitism as art. Rue89 asks whether it's left-wing to block Internet access. And in the New Republic, John Banville reads Samuel Beckett's letters.
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The Nation portrays Bulgarian mafioso and author Georgi Stoev, who met the same death as many a victim in his books. In Nepszabadsag, poet Akos Szilagyi explains why outlawing Holocaust denial would not restrict freedom of speech. The New Yorker wants to see more command responsibility. In the Gazeta Wyborcza, Roza Thun wants to see more Polish passion for the EU. Andrew Orlowski in the New Statesman has lost his belief in Long Tails on the Net. And in the New Yorker, Russell Shorto explains the difference between the Dutch and the Americans.
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In Merkur Ralf Dahrendorf speaks out for the stakeholder. In the Guardian, Kazua Ishiguro warns writers not to "fart about" in their thirties. In Literaturen, Peter Sloterkijk tells it like it is: you have to put in at least 10,000 hours of practice to become even a passable craftsman or musician. The London Review explains the appeal of sharia-compliant banks. In Le Monde, philosopher and theologian Mezri Haddad talks about the vampirisation of Islam. The NYT fathoms the sub culture of drug smuggling.
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In Espresso, Suketu Mehta calls upon his fellow writers to save the world from the banksters! In the Guardian, Julian Barnes reads the only poem Arthur Hugh Clough ever received a penny for. The Polish language does nothing but express distrust, Tygodnik Powszechny complains. In Commonweal, Terry Eagleton describes the clash of culture and civilization. Observator Cultural throws a spotlight on Norman Manea. And Google's clairvoyant, the Economist discovers.
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In Eurozine, Serbian artists refuse to be reminded of their past. La vie des idees shows how the skirt has become a symbol of emancipation in France. In the Boston Review, Evgeny Morozov tells cyber-utopians that bloggers can be as anti-democratic as anyone else. The Spectator wants a "muscular Christianity" on its side. In Beszelö, the poet Akos Györffy sees a new Golem approaching. Paper money is confetti, Dr. Doom tells the NZZ Folio. And Douglas Adams cries on his bed in the Guardian.
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Google Street View provides the London Review with the key to understanding, finally, Stendhal's description of realism. Le Figaro reads Cioran's juvenilia. Outlook India salivates over food blogs. Babelia observes the divorcees in the Teatro Colon. Vanity Fair gloats over the promiscuous micturition in the Bohemian Club.
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In the Spectator, John Cleese tells a critic what a critic is. In Tygodnik Powszechny, philosopher Jean-Luc Marion has no problem proving the existence of God. In Prospect, Hanif Kureishi wishes authors had more balls. In the New Yorker, Seymour Hersh outlines the sort of sophisticated diplomacy that the Obama team needs. Espresso watches the Calabrian mafia using PTT. Wired visits a prison to hear the tale of the world's biggest diamond heist. n+1 is glad that the weirdness has been put back into German sex. The Gazeta Wyborcza drowned in the earnestness of a Berlin production of Dorota Maslowska's new play. And in the NYT, Freeman Dyson heats up the climate.
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Lettre International prints Bela Hamvas' 1960 essay on direct morality and bad conscience. The Nation demands state subsidies for old media. In El Pais Semanal, Javier Cercas waits for a novel about Hitler's moustache hair. In the Guardian, Mary Beard dispels all hopes for a good death. In Novel Obs, Alain Finkielkraut does not mention the Kundera Affair. In the New York Review of Books, John Gray learns all about debt from Margaret Atwood. Elet es Irodalom dwells on otherness. The TLS celebrates Josef Skvorecky. Umberto Eco eyes up the bodies of Mussolini and Berlusconi for L'Espresso. And Carlos Fernando Chamorro sheepishly tells the New York Times how he opposed his mother.
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In Osteuropa, Jachym Topol takes the subway and instantly spots the difference between East and West. In Frontline, the physicist Pervez Amirali Hoodbhoy decries the Saudi-ising of Pakistani culture. ResetDoc sees an army of dissidents in the Arab world. In the Guardian, Roger Norrington plays Beethoven in the right tempo. Not the sciences but the humanities can deconstruct religion, the New Humanist asserts. Elet es Irodalom takes a swing at Hungarian lobbying. The Economist is fascinated by an archive from the Warsaw ghetto. The New York Times portrays music tycoon Valeri Gergiev.
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Reality exists! But only when we're not looking, the Economist declares. Blindness is the purest form of sight, Claude Lanzmann assures the Nouvel Obs. Vanity Fair tracks down the Viking gene in the Icelandic man. In the American, James V. DeLong looks into the forked future of a paid and a free Internet. In the Believer, author and filmmaker C.S. Leigh fondly recalls a fetid human experience. Italy's rotting, cries MicroMega. The polluter pays! Joseph Stiglitz declares in the Nation. And Jonathan Littell's novel "The Kindly Ones" induces visions of sausages in the New York Times.
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In Salon.eu.sk, Jaroslav Formanek takes aim at BHL's arrogance. Prospect succumbs to the charms of Odessa's Black Sea hedonism. In Dissent, historian Michael B. Katz describes his experiences on the jury at a murder trial. In Edge.org, Dennis Dutton links aesthetics with evolution. Fareed Zakaria seeks peace with the Islamists in Newsweek. In Outlook India, the Islamist Maulana Sufi Mohammed describes what this peace will look like. The Observator Cultural opens up the world of Stefan Agopian. And philosophers, Europa discovers, even have their own way of dying.
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In the London Review, Perry Anderson counts the servitors in the Quirinale. Salon.eu.sk documents Peter Nadas's speech to Hungary's national bankers - on the subject of trust. In Clarin, Roberto Saviano celebrates the new football god, Leo Messi. In Nouvel Obs, French historian Nelly Schmidt thanks the British for initiating research into French colonialism. L'Espresso finds out what Sarkozy could do for Italian culture.
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Do the Palestinians need more space than the Belgians? asks Amos Oz in the Guardian. In Eurozine Slavenka Drakulic talks about learning things the hard way. In Nepszabadsag Bogdan Goralczyk and Laszlo Lengyel despair over Eastern European provincialism. The New Republic worries that a two-class information society will emerge from the ashes of the newspapers. In Espresso, Umberto Eco hurls his books out the window. And in TLS Richard Dawkins delares: Evolution is true.
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Vanity Fair recounts how Warner fires successful film producers. In Eurozine, Jens-Martin Eriksen and Frederik Stjernfelt trace the fine line between multiculturalism and racism . In the New Statesman, Dennis Dutton looks out onto ideal, high-protein landscapes. Polityka sips a vicious cocktail, cherry and all. In the Spectator, Darwin praises monkey brilliance. In Le Crois, Simon Leys lashes out at Roland Barthes's unusual indecency. And for Nouvel Obs, Abraham B. Yehoshua reviews Israel's bitter victory in Gaza.
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