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Current Preoccupations: « Exile is a form of action »This article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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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 in 1875 to satisfy the book-thirstiness of exiled Russian revolutionaries, and you can say that it still fulfils its mission. Once upstairs, you find yourself…
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A Madman’s TaleThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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« I guess it all began, » he said, « because of that weak-headedness my father sometimes had. It just rubbed me the wrong way. »
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Ten Issues in — and Europe keeps thinking
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With Issue Ten, our golden Jubilee, we celebrate ten editions of independent, multilingual writing that crosses languages, borders and expectations. At a time when culture is flattened into opinion and noise, the European Review of Books is a space for reflection — a space inhabited by writers, editors and readers who believe Europe deserves better critique and…
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Current Preoccupations, week 40
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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. The line snaked around a block by London’s St. James Palace; the evening was warm, and the mood convivial. It was opening night: we were…
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Current Preoccupations, week 39
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Any fool can see that the head of state is naked, that he is a complete phony — except for himself. Such appears to be the premise of The Emperor’s Clothes, a fairy tale I see referred to more and more. Apparently, Hans Christian Andersen’s 1837 parable is awfully relevant today. Reading yet another reference…
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Texting with … Lilia Topouzova
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I wanted to show that history and memory are inseparable—and that unsilencing is itself a method.
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Current Preoccupations, week 38
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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 project was half of a larger installation called « Anal Peace » that is being shown at Corvi-Mora, an art-gallery in South London. Clark’s half…
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Current Preoccupations, week 37
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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 hi-vis jackets, whom I took to be paramedics, were bent over, questioning him. Then they picked him up by his arms and legs and head…
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Letter to the editor
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Issue Nine features the essay After Midnight, by Alexander Etkind and Johanna Gautier-Morin. Here’s a reaction to that essay, by Frances Butler, who has recently completed her PhD in Geography at UCL (University College, London) and is currently writing a book about climate responsibility and justice.
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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 ». The next day, the United Nations declared that Gaza had officially entered a state of famine. We spoke to senior researcher at FA Nour Abuzaid,…
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Texting with … Johanna SinisaloThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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With Johanna Sinisalo the ERB’s Sander Pleij texts about Finnish Weird…