A Palestinian writer mentally retreats to three unreadable cities.
Our first piece from Issue Eight, out from behind the paywall! « It’s best to go into Schengen’s history unshocked by contradiction. »
Two novelists (one Swiss, one Spanish) sign up for agricultural jobs.
Why aren’t Isaac Bashevis Singer’s gangster novels published in English?
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When an authoritarian regime collapses, what happens to the archives of its secret police?
Photos of young cocoa farmers in Côte d’Ivoire, who prove that after decades of depletion, soil recovery is possible.
Austrian writer Marlen Haushofer & the enemy hiding in those we have to love.
On Norwegian writer Vigdis Hjorth’s funerals & infatuations.
What do we tell ourselves when all the trees simply vanish?
On Gustave Caillebotte’s Impressionist butts.
English or Turkish? Tipsy or çakırkeyf? A letter to a bi-lingual editor
The use of the colon in titling, and other laments.
Madame Bovary leaps into a modern time, a new medium and another biological kingdom.
Around the world in strawberry red. Schengen’s pseudo-borderless « Europe ». A day in Minsk & an eternity at the border. A trip through Syria’s now-uninhabited terror apparatus (archivists needed). Cocoa farmers in Côte d’Ivoire, agricultural-novelists in Switzerland & France, tree-huggers in The Hague, and much more to get lost in.
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« There’s a desire to set things on fire, to make the world anew. »
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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