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  • Double negative

    It’s best to go into Schengen’s history unshocked by contradiction.

    Double negative

Reviews

Creation Lake

Rachel Kushner

Reviewed by Harilaos Stecopoulos

Ei, Foetus, baby

Trudy Dehue

Reviewed by Wiegertje Postma

The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story

Olga Tokarczuk

Reviewed by Madeline Gressel

Hangman; a novel

Maya Binyam

Reviewed by Tomi Onabanjo

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  • TWGGAWI™

    Ripley and the enduring story of the white guy getting away with it. « Even with murder. Especially with murder! »


  • Parallel world

    Photos of a Thai village that, due to coastal erosion, is slowly but surely giving way to the sea.


  • Let’s enjoy the moon

    Eight young women live in a college run by nuns in Rome; an excerpt from Alba de Céspedes’ There’s No Turning Back (Nessuno Torna Indietro).


  • No longer at home

    A review of Hangman: A Novel by Maya Binyam. «Returning home rests … as the thematic cornerstone of African and African-diasporic literature.»


  • Of wild men and horses

    Pastoralism is the antidote to industrial farming. Kapka Kassabova treks with wild horses in one of Europe’s last wildernesses.


  • Miracle & yonder

    Paul Simon’s Graceland & country music’s global history. «The idea of anti-apartheid country music is counter-intuitive but profound.»


  • Funny haha

    Pretty much every European country has a satirical news site – all in the tradition of American example The Onion.


  • The body in the crushed roses

    Excerpt from Sergei Lebedev’s new novel The Lady of the Mine (2025), set near a Ukrainian coal mine that buries atrocities from the past.


  • Something rotten

    On the sanatoriums of Olga Tokarczuk’s The Empusium and Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain.


  • « Tham dii day dii » – Thai farmworkers in Israel

    Modern Zionism’s founding ideology, in which diaspora Jews would be redeemed by working the soil, has long ceded to neoliberalism’s imperatives

  • Issue Seven

    Filled to the brim with delights: European news satire, the Chinese Communist Party’s favorite sci-fi series, fiction by Alba de Céspedes and Sergei Lebedev, reviews of novels by Olga Tokarczuk and Rachel Kushner, Yiddish gangster novels, anti-apartheid country music, hard-boiled Bulgarian horsemen and much, much more.

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    Issue Seven

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