Traces of Mavis
How a great Canadian writer died penniless in Paris
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Keeping the Republic Together
Modern France was created through the assimilation of agrarian serfs. In a post-colonial age, the task of integrating five million North African émigrés has proven to be a very different sort of project
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Nous sommes Charlie
Illustrators draw support for their fallen comrades from Charlie Hebdo
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Back to the Drafting Table
What Belgium can teach us about better architecture
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Water to Burn
Iceland’s experiment with hydrogen points toward an oil-free world.
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Between the Cross and the Jewish Graveyard
After decades in a fiery cultural forge, Polish art emerged sharp and beautiful. But have the country’s ghosts returned to dull the edge?
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The Governor General in Finland
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A Dandy for Our Times
Jean Cocteau dined, fought, or collaborated with anyone who was anyone in avant-garde Paris. But his own art was ignored, dismissed as the work of a frivolous queen. A new retrospective hopes to change that
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Voter’s Blok
Political power of Belgian ethnocentrism
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Why the Poles Are in Iraq
Deploying the troops and stirring the pot
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