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Life a Cold Crematorium: A Long-Lost Memoir from a Holocaust Survivor

Life a Cold Crematorium: A Long-Lost Memoir from a Holocaust Survivor

József Debreczeni Recounts a Terrifying Train Ride from Hungary to Auschwitz with His Fellow Prisoners

By József Debreczeni | January 25, 2024

Nobel Prize Laureate Katalin Karikó on Her Hungarian Childhood

Nobel Prize Laureate Katalin Karikó on Her Hungarian Childhood

“I understand now that this local ‘soap cooker lady’ was the first biochemist I ever met.”

By Katalin Karikó | October 12, 2023

Patti McCracken on the Early 20th-century Hungarian Women Who Poisoned 160 Men

Patti McCracken on the Early 20th-century Hungarian Women Who Poisoned 160 Men

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | March 15, 2023

Searching for the Ghosts of My Father’s Life in Hungary

Searching for the Ghosts of My Father’s Life in Hungary

Karen Winn on Traveling Overseas to Find the Parent She Had Lost

By Karen Winn | May 4, 2022

What Comes After Neoliberalism? And Is It Worse?

What Comes After Neoliberalism? And Is It Worse?

Andrew Keen on the Alarming Political Realities of Hungarian Nationalism

By Andrew Keen | April 8, 2022

Dorit Geva on Viktor Orbán’s “Ordonationalist” Hungary

Dorit Geva on Viktor Orbán’s “Ordonationalist” Hungary

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | December 21, 2021

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Staring Down Horror: On Anna Akhmatova, Primo Levi, and Recovering Hope From Suffering

By Michael Ignatieff | November 10, 2021

Hungarian authorities have fined the distributor of a children’s book featuring same-sex parents.

By Walker Caplan | July 7, 2021

The Hungarian government has ordered a publisher to put a disclaimer on inclusive children's books.

By Dan Sheehan | January 20, 2021

Cold War Turned Flavor War: On European Food Disparity, From East to West

Cold War Turned Flavor War: On European Food Disparity, From East to West

Slavenka Drakulic on How Capitalism Impacts Quality in Post-Communist Countries

By Slavenka Drakulic | January 6, 2021

The Twilight of Democracy and the Rise of Authoritarianism

The Twilight of Democracy and the Rise of Authoritarianism

Anne Applebaum and Michael Ignatieff In Conversation with Andrew Keen on the Keen On

By Keen On | September 4, 2020

The Question Haunting the Hungarian People: “What Would You Have Done?”

The Question Haunting the Hungarian People: “What Would You Have Done?”

Rory MacLean Travels to the Forgotten Parts of Europe

By Rory MacLean | January 17, 2020

The Hungarian Author Who Foresaw the Future of Nationalism

The Hungarian Author Who Foresaw the Future of Nationalism

Considering Krisztina Tóth's Pointed Case for Open Borders

By Stephanie Newman | October 17, 2019

How Tiny Hungary Made Soccer Into the Game We Know and Love

How Tiny Hungary Made Soccer Into the Game We Know and Love

Jonathan Wilson on the Transformative Play of a Handful of Stars

By Jonathan Wilson | September 27, 2019

We Didn't Ask, But Laszlo Krasznahorkai Recommended 8 Books Anyway

We Didn't Ask, But Laszlo Krasznahorkai Recommended 8 Books Anyway

From Ákos Győrffy to Miklós Mészöly (and Pynchon, too)

By Literary Hub | June 26, 2018

Life in the Borderlands, from Mexico to Hungary

Life in the Borderlands, from Mexico to Hungary

On the Universal Realities of the Migrant's Existence

By Alfredo Corchado | June 7, 2018

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