Basque writer Bernardo Atxaga’s new novel Golondrinas begins with the burial of legendary boxer Urtain and follows three funerals in the same grave across 50 years, blending death, rural decline, fantasy and
In a wide-ranging interview published by El País, Ana Conseglieri, a leading figure in Spanish neuropsychiatry and president of the Asociación Española de Neuropsiquiatría (AEN), sets out a critical reading of psychiatry’s
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Cheng Li-wun, the leader of Taiwan’s main opposition Kuomintang (KMT), has warned that the island must avoid becoming “the next Ukraine” as she defends a controversial strategy of renewed engagement with Beijing.
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Iranian Ambassador in Colombo Dr. Alireza Delkhosh says the Islamic Republic of Iran remains fully prepared to face US-Israeli aggression. In an interview with Shamindra Ferdinando of The Island at the Iranian Embassy, in
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As Russian President Vladimir Putin begins his state visit to China from May 19 to 20, attention is once again turning to the strength and resilience of China–Russia relations at a time
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Benjamín Prado has spent decades inhabiting multiple literary identities at once: poet, novelist, journalist, lyricist, and occasional actor. But in a recent conversation recorded by El País, he appears in a more
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At a DIE ZEIT roundtable, three of Germany’s most prominent digital voices debate whether the dream of a “good internet” has already been lost—or whether regulation, innovation, and European sovereignty can still
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Eva Baltasar receives visitors in her home in Cardedeu, a quiet town on the edge of the Barcelona metropolitan area where city noise slowly dissolves into forest. The writer, born in Barcelona
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Few public intellectuals have spent more time analyzing the rise and decline of American global power than Fareed Zakaria. For decades, the Indian-born journalist and geopolitical commentator has occupied a unique position
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The political alliance between Donald Trump and media personality Tucker Carlson, once one of the most powerful engines of the American right, is fracturing in public view. In an extensive interview published
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Paushali Lass is a transnational consultant, writer, and speaker whose work bridges geopolitics, culture, and identity across India, Germany, and Israel. Born in Kolkata and raised in New Delhi within a strongly
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In a world marked by geopolitical disorder and growing democratic fatigue, Belarusian Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievich offers a stark and unsettling diagnosis of the present. Speaking from her exile in Berlin,
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How does a state come to justify the movement of warplanes over civilian cities as a matter of necessity rather than catastrophe? At what point does strategic language begin to absorb human
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Adela Cortina, one of Spain’s most influential contemporary thinkers and a key voice in European ethics, has offered a stark yet measured diagnosis of the country’s evolution over the past 50 years.
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The Spanish writer Elvira Lindo has returned to the years she once spent moving between Madrid and New York, reflecting on a turbulent period that now reads, in her view, like an
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Two years after the death of Russia’s most prominent opposition leader, Yulia Navalnaya says she still hears her husband’s voice. It is not only a memory but a guiding force, shaping her
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