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Art before art
Christy Wampole

On Paleolithic painters & speculative criticism.

Review
Forget your darlings
Marisa Libbon

On memory palaces, medieval and modern. A medieval woman’s life would not have taken the form of a straight line.

Review
Hitchhiker
Defne Suman

A story about danger. « She wondered when he was going to ask her where she was going. »

Otostopçu
Defne Suman

« Eylül adamın ‘ne tarafa gidiyorsun’ diye sormasını bekledi »

Story
Streuselkuchen
Marc Lunghuss

Eine Geschichte über Coolness. « Das Telefon klingelt. Jim Jarmusch ist dran und fragt, ob ich nicht bei ihm vorbeikommen will. »

Streuselkuchen
Marc Lunghuss

A story about coolness. « The phone rings. It is Jim Jarmusch, and he asks if I want to come over to his place. »

Story
Five uneasy pieces
Igor Pomerantsev

How I stopped being an older brother (& other stories)

Pearl
Bad writing advice
The Editors

Writing advice is everywhere. Some of it might even be good! But we were interested in the bad.

From the editors
Pigeon Water
William Nelson

Online, pigeon water is what we swim in and slather on ourselves.

Essay
The inborn germ
Philippe Huneman

Why death? Who or what dies? Philosophers tend not to explain, but to justify. When do such questions become biological questions? Does it help?

Essay
The invention of austerity
Charles S. Maier

Dramatic economic inflations have punctuated twentieth-century political history. Is austerity a class strategy?

Review
Schwarzeneggerology
George Blaustein

On Arnold, action cinema & Übermenschlichkeit. « Arnold Schwarzenegger was action cinema’s Adamic man, alternately entering and exiting normal human time. »

Essay
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