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  • Eight hours don’t make a day

    A story about the art of disappearance


  • A letter from

    « Even if you feel at home in time and space today, you know that you are already in mourning for the future loss of everything that is beautiful. This is the first time humanity is mourning in the future tense. »


  • The sea between

    « In order to survive amidst this bleak existence, the Mediterranean people established two distinct strategies: hopelessness or salvation. Some embraced hopelessness as the best way to approach the absurd condition of human life. »

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  • Europe Special 2024 – Extra Edition

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  • What an animal isn’tThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.

    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.


  • Jesus in the pinesThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.

    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.


  • The big beige booksThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.

    The most important unreviewed books of our times, reviewed. On Xi Jinping’s The Governance of China, Volumes I to IV

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