Jenny Farrell
LATEST ARTICLES BY Jenny Farrell
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The invisible front: An American woman’s memoir of spying for East Germany
June 26, 2024One couple did everything in their power to help stop a third world war, risking everything in pursuit of this goal.
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Duke Ellington, a monument in music and cultural history, died 50 years ago
May 24, 2024Duke Ellington, a commanding figure in music and cultural history, especially in the jazz world, died 50 years ago, on May 24, 1974.
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Reading ‘Kairos’: Literary snapshot of life during socialist East Germany’s final days
May 23, 2024Jenny Erpenbeck’s novel about a young woman living through the end of the GDR has just won the International Booker Prize.
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Byron and the ‘Satanic School’: On the bicentennial of his death
April 19, 2024The impression made on Byron by Italian and Greek revolutionaries and, not least, his personal experiences of the wars of the suffering and fighting people, led to a new socially critical awareness.
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Women’s artistic narratives in times of war
March 8, 2024From its outset, International Women's Day was characterized by the fight for peace, against militarism and war. Countless women artists have also addressed the issue of war.
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Art enters the age of imperialism
January 29, 2024Edvard Munch’s The Scream (1893) speaks to us again today with great intensity.
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A monument to Lenin: Sourcing a well-known poem by Bertolt Brecht
January 19, 2024The story of how carpet weavers in Turkestan honored Lenin by helping themselves survive.
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Paul Lynch novel ‘Prophet Song’: A wake-up call for democracy
December 14, 2023Paul Lynch’s Cassandra call has touched a nerve among the middle classes. May it be a wakeup call.
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