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Madame Blueberry’s insatiable want
Madame Bovary leaps into a modern time, a new medium and another biological kingdom.
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The great schizophrenia
Austrian writer Marlen Haushofer & the enemy hiding in those we have to love.
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Men in the off hours
On Gustave Caillebotte’s Impressionist butts.
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On learning to hate chickens
Two novelists (one Swiss, one Spanish) sign up for agricultural jobs.
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Double negative
Our first piece from Issue Eight, out from behind the paywall! « It’s best to go into Schengen’s history unshocked by contradiction. »
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The shortest, longest bus trip
Travelogue of a day in Minsk & an eternity at the EU border.
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Bethlehem, Jericho & a view of Jerusalem
A Palestinian writer mentally retreats to three unreadable cities.
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How to abandon an archive
When an authoritarian regime collapses, what happens to the archives of its secret police?
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Re-generation
Photos of young cocoa farmers in Côte d’Ivoire, who prove that after decades of depletion, soil recovery is possible.
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To grieve, to pine
On Norwegian writer Vigdis Hjorth’s funerals & infatuations.
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One last round | Son bir şans
English or Turkish? Tipsy or çakırkeyf? A letter to a bi-lingual editor
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Around the world in strawberry red. Schengen’s pseudo-borderless « Europe ». A day in Minsk & an eternity at the border. A trip through Syria’s now-uninhabited terror apparatus (archivists needed). Cocoa farmers in Côte d’Ivoire, agricultural-novelists in Switzerland & France, tree-huggers in The Hague, and much more to get lost in.
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Sick men of Europe
King Leopold & Sultan Abdülhamid — a tale of two monarchs. «I’ve come to see them as twins of a kind: monarchs in bourgeois garb.»
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The Three Body Solution
The Chinese Communist Party embraces the sci-fi hit The Three Body Problem.
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Bad writing advice
Writing advice is everywhere. Some of it might even be good! But we were interested in the bad.
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Europe disenchanted
A broad cast of characters who almost all speak to a solitary woe. This is Europe?
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Pigeon Water
Online, pigeon water is what we swim in and slather on ourselves.
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Visit the extractocene!
The Eisenthür silver mine is real; the village below is entirely fictive.
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Corrupted, yet intact
On the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Europe of European integration.
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On location
Mission: Impossible and Eurocentric stunts, from Hollywood to Hong Kong. What does an action movie want to be?
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