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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Villa Verde oder das Hotel in San Remo: Das italienische Exil der Familie Benjamin
Eva Weissweiler
Reviewed by Ian Ellison
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On growing up in the creases of bilingual versions of T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land
A water superpower runs dry. A photo series from Hungary.
On the ruined city’s pilgrims & decoders
A photographer asks: why bother making photographs?
A new book challenges the myth of photography’s immateriality.
Non-words for the remembered & unremembered violence of Bulgarian labor camps.
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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A broad cast of characters who almost all speak to a solitary woe. This is Europe?
Online, pigeon water is what we swim in and slather on ourselves.
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?
We’ve built it; now come live in it.
Or, the art of the error
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