Coup

Peter Sarsgaard in Coup! (Greenwich Entertainment)The year is 1918. The Spanish flu is raging. Mega rich muckraking journalist Jay Horton (Billy Magnussen) has holed up in his mansion on Egg Island with his family and servants writing screeds against the federal government’s handling of the pandemic. (Sound familiar?) He writes eyewitness accounts of the working man, except he is not an eyewitness at all. He makes it up—and he is very popular. To cook the family’s meals during the quarantine,...

Containing Russia

Alexander Kluge, Russia Container, trans. Alexander Booth (Chicago: Seagull Books, 2022). 392pp., £27.50 hb., 978 1 80309 065 8Russia Container is not a book about Russia. It’s about the images and stories that East Germans had of Soviet Russia before the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and after. Alexander Kluge wrote it ‘on commission’ by his sister Alexandra Kluge, who, unlike her brother, lived in the German Democratic Republic after the separation of their parents. There Alexandra learnt...

Discussing the 1918 and 1919 flu epidemics - economic impacts

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How Nazi hunters tracked down mass murders in the United States

How Nazi hunters tracked down mass murders in the United States