The Rise and Fall of gal-dem
The first British magazine for women and non-binary people of colour is gone. After eight years of publishing, gal-dem shut down due to intractable financial difficulties.(...)
The ChatGPT Sessions, Volume 1
By community standards, his trip was a failure. Italian Jews protested Netanyahu's visit, and the community's leader, Noemi Di Segni, excoriated him for the settler pogrom in Hawara and for undermining Israeli democracy.(...)
The Battleground’s Spring Books List
Photographing Italian Politics
Songs of Gastarbeiter Vol. 2
To begin a compilation of decades-old tracks with a remix is a bold move. But Songs of Gastarbeiter Vol. 2 deploys it brilliantly. (...)
Britain’s Immigration Debate
Borders bring almost as much insecurity as security.(...)
The Charlie Bertsch Interview, Part II
When the Press Fails
It was a typically cringe-worthy piece of German journalism.(...)
This is What Europe Sounds Like, by Joel Schalit
This is What Europe Sounds Like makes for uneasy listening. Not because of strident guitars, disturbing lyrics, or aggressive atonality, but because it refuses to meet the expectation of music at all.(...)
Solo Tutto, by Massimo Pericolo
Unlike so many of the records that fall under the rubric of rap these days, Massimo Pericolo’s Solo Tutto remembers what the term originally meant.(...)