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August 11, 2016
Welcome to Sunny Barcelona, Where the Government Is Embracing Coops, Citizen Activism, and Solar Energy
The city that resisted Franco is looking to its radical past to build a progressive future.
Sebastiaan Faber and Bécquer Seguín
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July 19, 2016
A Brutal Account of Colonialism in Africa Just Showed Up in the Most Unlikely of Places: Hollywood
Bet you didn’t know the latest Tarzan movie was based on this story.
Adam Hochschild
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July 18, 2016
Spaniards Confront the Legacy of Civil War and Dictatorship
Four decades after the transition to democracy, families victimized by Francoist repression have organized in a quest for justice.
Bécquer Seguín and Sebastiaan Faber
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March 21, 2016
The Untold Story of the Texaco Oil Tycoon Who Loved Fascism
Franco’s fuel supplier didn’t live in Berlin or Rome. He lived in New York, and he worked in the Chrysler Building.
Adam Hochschild
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July 18, 2015
July 18, 1936: The Spanish Civil War Begins
“Not a method of keeping out of war but the establishment of a warless world must be our goal.”
Richard Kreitner
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December 30, 2013
Memory Politics: On ‘Franco’s Crypt’
To what extent does Franco’s rule still dictate contemporary Spanish culture?
Jonathan Blitzer
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January 5, 2011
A Secret Archive: On the Mexican Suitcase
The 4,500 images in the recently discovered Mexican Suitcase deepen our understanding of photojournalism as well as the complexities of the Spanish Civil War.
Dan Kaufman
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September 16, 2009
A Domestic Existentialist: On Mercè Rodoreda
Mercè Rodoreda's fiction plumbs a sadness borne of helplessness, an almost voluptuous vulnerability.
Natasha Wimmer
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August 12, 2009
La Despedida: A Lost Memoir of the Spanish Civil War
A long-lost memoir of the Spanish Civil War moves jaggedly between boredom, fleeting triumphs and terror.
Dan Kaufman
