Police State Procedural
The new season of Fauda takes the denigration of Palestinians to new depths.
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Self-Hater
In Nadav Lapid’s new film, Synonyms, a young Israeli attempts to outrun his own Israeliness.
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Endangered Democracies
A new documentary asks: Has Brazil’s democracy been merely a passing dream?
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The Past Is Not Past
The Romanian filmmaker Radu Jude interrogates his country’s antisemitic history and its echoes in the present.
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What Marx Got Wrong
A new biography of the philosopher misses the shortcomings of the Marxist tradition.
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‘Fauda’ and the Act of Israeli Ventriloquism
The new season of the hit Israeli show Fauda continues in its portrayal of brutish Israelis and cowardly Palestinians.
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Indonesia’s Unmourned Communists
A new work addresses the long-neglected mass politicide of communists in Indonesia.
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The Kremlin Ball
Ex-fascist diplomat Curzio Malaparte's masterpiece blends the real, the improbable, and the impossible in Soviet Russia.
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Revolutionary Bandits
A new history of the revolutionary criminals who rejected any possibility of revolution coming from the degraded masses—and turned their revolt into an individualistic one.
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