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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

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.“

An interesting layered take on Joe Chialo and the dismantling of funding for progressive arts projects in Berlin, plus whether mockery helps. thediasporist.de/bait-and-swi...

Book launch in Berlin tomorrow >>> www.lettretage.de/Termine/berl...

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

The wonderful people of @almafamily4.bsky.social still need your help!!! Give if you can!!!

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 >> stadtsprachen.de/en/event/par...

www.the-berliner.com/books/vilay-... COME TO CURIOUS FOX TONIGHT TO SEE THIS LOVELY MAN BUT LESS IN MUD @berlinbooks.bsky.social

great column on thomas brasch and berlin's political theater by @return2sanders.bsky.social in last month's Berliner mag >> www.the-berliner.com/stage/thomas...

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 >> www.the-berliner.com/books/broder...

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.

🪓 Outrage in the Czech Republic: Axe used to vandalize memorial to Romani children murdered during the Holocaust 📰 Full article: romea.cz/en/czech-rep...

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

Amen

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. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

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 thebaffler.com/salvos/house...

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.

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

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

Full of speculative "sanewashing" fantasy: "If Mr. Musk and his team of cost cutters from the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, want to trim the Pentagon budget in a responsible way, they may need to know what weapons systems the Pentagon plans to use in a fight with China."

whether you like AOC or not, that's a fucking bar bsky.app/profile/acyn...

Two of Cabinet’s editors recently had the opportunity to chat about the past and future of the magazine with book critic Alexander Wells (@ajbwells.bsky.social). Read the full interview in this month’s issue of The Berliner.

BREAKING NEWS: BERLIN

Die Gruppe "Israelis für Frieden" ruft zu einer Demo gegen Israels genozidalen Krieg auf - am kommenden Freitag, um 17 Uhr, vor dem Auswärtigen Amt.

Just so you know, despite the CDU’s culture cuts, there are still some cheap seats at Berlin‘s theaters…my most recent column for @exberliner.bsky.social www.the-berliner.com/stage/cheap-...

the best account of the Berlinale (and its promises, problems, contradictions) I’ve read this year. excellent stuff

"Germany is Not Your Friend" by Schayan Riaz The Berlinale’s reputation as a political film festival gets put to the test: thediasporist.de/germany-is-n...

Very much looking forward to it! More info: www.lettretage.de/programm/?ev...

This sounds interesting…Anything like this in Berlin? www.newyorker.com/culture/drin...

the corrosion of discourse has also rotted out my poor brain. just mindlessly typing this

Germany in free fall mode in the Academic Freedom Index. That is totally and utterly unsurprising

words to break through the despair

Germany and other governments have helped turn the fight against antisemitism into quashing criticism of Israel, using the ill-advised IHRA definition. This enabled a hostile takeover of that fight by the growing far right. Now it blows up in their face. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Milei und der Sohn von Bolsonaro kommen auch! Und es gibt sogar eine Tour nach Samaria, wo man die dortige "Ko-Existenz" bestaunen kann, bevor die Bedeutung der IHRA-Definition für repressive Maßnahmen noch mal diskutiert wird.

Olaf Scholz pandered to the far right and achieved a historic defeat while Die Linke ran a on a left populist platform and doubled their vote share. Labour’s takeaway? Pander to the far right!

Hardly the most important thing at this moment, but worth flagging that the Miami Beach mayor is canceling grants to an independent cinema in Miami for screening NO OTHER LAND & citing GERMANY’s criticism of it as his rationale. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...

In dem Gutachten steht "...all States are under an obligation (...)not to render aid or assistance in maintaining the situation created by the continued presence of the State of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory." Deutschland unterstützt die illegale Besatzung im direkten Gegensatz dazu.

"We are Jewish professors, staff, students from universities across the US. We hold various views about Israel, Palestine, student activism . But we are united in denouncing anyone who invokes our name to harass, expel, arrest, or deport members of our communities” docs.google.com/document/d/1...?

alsoooooo sollten wir jetzt auch über eine kulturelle unabhängigkeit von den USA diskutieren??