Fernanda Eberstadt
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On the Hungarian elections
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« Last night didn’t just feel like an election victory, there was something of 1989 about it, the way people were dancing on the roofs of bus stops, forming a…
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The vanished world
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Monsieur and Madame Louis Cahen d’Anvers never liked Renoir’s portrait of their eight-year-old daughter; it was Madame Cahen d’Anvers’s lover who chose Renoir over a more fashionable society portraitist; they…
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« Exile is a form of action »
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The Bibliothèque Tourguenieff, the oldest Russian-language lending-library outside Russia, is on the second floor of an anonymous apartment building in the 5th arrondissement of Paris. The library was originally founded…
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~ Potpourri: France
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« Chaos is no longer the weapon of the rebels but the banner of those in power. »
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The Emperor’s New Clothes Part II: Crowds and Phones
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Last week, I found myself waiting in a long line of twenty-something-year-olds in fancy dress, Goths in black leather and chains, trans waifs in white pancake makeup and platform wedgies.…
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« Mother Has Arrived »
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Last Saturday I saw a play called « Mother Has Arrived ». It was written and directed by Than Hussein Clark, an American artist based in Glasgow and Genoa. His…
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D’win Erbyn, Genocide
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The elderly gentleman seemed at first sight to be having some kind of seizure. He was lying on the ground, his body shaking convulsively. Young men and women in yellow…
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Mapping starvation
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On 21 August, Forensic Architecture, a London-based agency that investigates acts of state violence and lawlessness worldwide, released its latest project: « The Architecture of Genocidal Starvation in Gaza ».…
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Men in the off hoursThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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On Gustave Caillebotte’s Impressionist butts.
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« Tham dii day dii » – Thai farmworkers in IsraelThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Modern Zionism’s founding ideology, in which diaspora Jews would be redeemed by working the soil, has long ceded to neoliberalism’s imperatives
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A worm’s-eye view of GazaThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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An interview with Forensic Architecture’s founder Eyal Weizman. « Overground Gaza becomes de negative shape – the reflection – of Underground Gaza. »