The Mothers Grimm
What ties Gretel to her witch? Louise Glück’s poem Gretel in Darkness provides answers.
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Villa Verde oder das Hotel in San Remo: Das italienische Exil der Familie Benjamin
Eva Weissweiler
Reviewed by Ian Ellison
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The Barren Nothing-Place
On growing up in the creases of bilingual versions of T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land
Blue memoir
A water superpower runs dry. A photo series from Hungary.
Letters from Persepolis
On the ruined city’s pilgrims & decoders
Pen & Needle; or, the clothes in a writer’s closet
Jane Austen valued fashion as an intrinsic part of one’s character — whether in her own life or in a novel.
Forage, farm, hunt
A photographer asks: why bother making photographs?
Without Cause
« The exercise here is of a philosopher who would review the AI Act as a text. »
Interjections
Non-words for the remembered & unremembered violence of Bulgarian labor camps.
Independence and/or Death
Brazilian artist Jaime Lauriano recreated the iconic painting Independence or Death (1822). A scorched earth remains in his own Independence and Death (2022).
Issue Six is luxuriously lilac on the outside, and its contents are equally lush. Fiction by Adania Shibli, Théo Casciani and Agnes Lidbeck. The EU’s new AI Act, reviewed. An exploration of the past, present and future of photography, a pilgrimage to Persepolis & a lament for German carpets. A new appreciation of Jane Austen’s handiwork & a new understanding of a fairytale witch’s intentions. All with the ERB’s remarkable print design: turn the pages to read, cut the pages for a second layer of depth and digression.
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Europe disenchanted
A broad cast of characters who almost all speak to a solitary woe. This is Europe?
Pigeon Water
Online, pigeon water is what we swim in and slather on ourselves.
Visit the extractocene!
The Eisenthür silver mine is real; the village below is entirely fictive.
Corrupted, yet intact
On the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Europe of European integration.
On location
Mission: Impossible and Eurocentric stunts, from Hollywood to Hong Kong. What does an action movie want to be?
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Found in translation
Or, the art of the error
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