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A new history of Europe’s postwar world and its displaced persons.

Can a second language provide us with a new self?

The right-wing nationalist government has defunded and harassed the influential theater community and passed a harsh new media censorship law, threatening the country’s fragile democratic institutions.

The right-wing nationalist government has defunded and harassed the influential theater community and passed a harsh new media censorship law, threatening the country’s fragile democratic institutions.

Traveling along the Danube into the heart of the new Europe.

The EU's neoliberal economic reforms have undermined public faith in democratic politics.

In an information economy, tiny asymmetries in language comprehension translate into vast profits--and large-scale collapses.

Two months after VE Day, Meyer Levin visits Europe and is astonished to find that the Continent's Jewish community has been annihilated. Even the few survivors can't believe it.

More than 200 bloggers, human rights activists, writers, journalists, hackers and IT experts have joined the fight against censorship on the web.

There was little enthusiasm for revisiting the camps in Communist Hungary. Author Imre Kertész refracts that reluctance in fictional form.