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People rule here. They define the laws of life and death. They can kill animals to eat them. They can excoriate them, play with their suffering, modify their bodies—simultaneously claiming that they are intelligent and emphatic beings. The Animals Spoke Up consists of four stories with animals as the protagonists. The toro bravo bulls, since birth preparing to fight at the corrida de toros. Together...

Heritage can often be difficult, as best evidenced by the former Auschwitz concentration camp or the Palace of Culture and Science. In Poland, however, the most problematic is the heritage left behind by the Third Reich. The complexity of this issue is demonstrated in the latest book by the International Cultural Centre. It also provides the most complete, often surprising, overview of these "badly...