Jane Austen valued fashion as an intrinsic part of one’s character — whether in her own life or in a novel.
« The exercise here is of a philosopher who would review the AI Act as a text. »
What ties Gretel to her witch? Louise Glück’s poem Gretel in Darkness provides answers.
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Two winters in Istanbul. If you are a holder of a Russian passport, there are few places in the Western hemisphere that you can go without a visa.
Solitary sailing, and the philosophy thereof: What sort of writing is possible when the mind is at sea and so entirely occupied and swaddled?
Insofar as erotica can ever be about something, what is Russia-themed erotica about?
Two vastly different books — one a picaresque tale, the other a dystopian meditation — both recount a transition from human to animal or from animal to human.
Refugees and border guards in the Białowieża Forest. Scenes of violence play out behind a thick cover of trees, in a remote corner of Poland.
A family’s travelogue from Phnom Penh to Paris and back
The most important unreviewed books of our times, reviewed. On Xi Jinping’s The Governance of China, Volumes I to IV
On Arnold, action cinema & Übermenschlichkeit. « Arnold Schwarzenegger was action cinema’s Adamic man, alternately entering and exiting normal human time. »
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A broad cast of characters who almost all speak to a solitary woe. This is Europe?
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The Eisenthür silver mine is real; the village below is entirely fictive.
On the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Europe of European integration.
Mission: Impossible and Eurocentric stunts, from Hollywood to Hong Kong. What does an action movie want to be?
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