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  • ~ Potpourri: Amsterdam

    ~ Potpourri: Amsterdam

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    A place where everything that cannot be endured aboveground finds its refuge.

  • ~ Potpourri: Paris

    ~ Potpourri: Paris

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    Copi channels his fascination with lowlives, queer people, immigrants and other outcasts

  • ~ Potpourri: Florence

    ~ Potpourri: Florence

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    Langer, the Europeanist, the practical pacifist, the man who inaugurated Italian environmentalism and inspired European environmentalism.

  • ~ Potpourri: Germany

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    Everybody is talking about…

  • ~ Potpourri: Spain

    ~ Potpourri: Spain

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    It’s one of those non-fiction chronicles in which the topic doesn’t really matter.

  • ~ Potpourri: France

    ~ Potpourri: France

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    « Chaos is no longer the weapon of the rebels but the banner of those in power. »

  • ~ Potpourri: Malta

    ~ Potpourri: Malta

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    He tried to live as if none of it had ever happened, but some stories don’t let you go.

  • A Madman’s Tale

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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. »

  • Ten Issues in — and Europe keeps thinking

    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…

  • The Emperor’s New Clothes Part II: Crowds and Phones

    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.…

  • « The Emperor’s Clothes »

    « The Emperor’s Clothes »

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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…

  • Texting with … Lilia Topouzova

    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.