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~ Potpourri: Spain
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It’s one of those non-fiction chronicles in which the topic doesn’t really matter.
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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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~ 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.
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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…
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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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« 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…
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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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« 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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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…
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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 ».…