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Crafting a human text is like wrestling a wild animal
On Cécile Wajsbrot’s « Nevermore », Eva Meijer’s « Een woord voor », and the constant self-flagellation that comes with putting words to paper.
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The cudgellers’ dilemma
What Goya’s Black Paintings can tell us about current Spanish climate struggles.
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The pain-laden rhyme
An excerpt from a new biography on the life and poetry of Paul Celan.
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What do Europeans dream about?
A new book by Wolfram Lotz could have the key to a shared European unconscious. « Now I will show you what it’s like to live without god. »
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Psychopaths and AI never know when to shut upThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
What Patrick Bateman, ChatGPT and Sara Machina have in common.
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Collective punishment
When pirates captured two British merchant ships, the Genoese of England were put on trial.
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Babushka Z CosplayThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
A Ukrainian great-grandmother inadvertently becomes a pro-Russian icon.
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The plant whisperers
If you know what you are looking for, you find edible and healing plants everywhere.
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Carry The Prophet in your coat pocketThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
When you’re fifteen and you read Kahlil Gibran’s mystical bestseller for the first time.
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Glory to the railsThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
Millions of Ukrainians left the country during the first weeks of the invasion; four million were evacuated by train, including a million children. Thousands of…
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Child KingsThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
« Time is a child playing draughts; the kingship is a child’s. »
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Of trotting horses & angelic wordsThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
I was reminded of Muybridge’s moving pictures while looking at the serial attempts of Ambrogio Lorenzetti (d. 1348/49) at rendering the invisible visible.
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Talk Proto-Indo-European to me, darling
*wīrós (man), *h₁ék̂wōs (horse), *gwéneh₂ (woman)
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Queen of the nightThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
Maria Theresa, Habsburg empress, created the modern European state. To ponder her reign is to ask what the Enlightenment was — and is. Be careful…
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