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Category: Issue Eleven
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Books | Butchers!
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THE LONDON BOOK FAIR — A new trend I noticed at the London Book Fair: young European novelists writing about butchers and the meat industry.
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Curing my lying
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An excerpt from the novel Attention-Seeking Behaviour (Peninsula Press, 2026) by Aea Varfis-van Warmelo. « My being able to talk was most of the problem in the first place. »
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Book | The Ice Prophet
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THE NETHERLANDS — While reading this new book about « Iceman » Wim Hof, one scene lodged itself most prominently in my mind: the one in which he goes to Amsterdam’s Vondelpark…
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The cudgellers’ dilemmaThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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What Goya’s Black Paintings can tell us about current Spanish climate struggles.
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Book | White Moss
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THE ARCTIC CIRCLE — An interview with Irina Sadovina, who recently translated a novel set in a nomadic Indigenous Nenets community in Northern Siberia, by Nenets writer Anna Nerkagi.
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The death of an unknown womanThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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A story about falling, translated by Elina Alter.
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Book | La fine del mondo
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ITALY — An eighty-year-old communist running errands in a tracksuit in an upper-middle-class neighborhood — Francesco Pecoraro’s fictional avatar is a thoughtful, sad, sweet, engaged, hypochondriac boomer.
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The pain-laden rhyme
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An excerpt from a new biography on the life and poetry of Paul Celan.
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Magazine | Granta 174: Therapy
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ENGLAND — The Freud Museum. A loud merry gang of writers and friends crowded the rooms of the large London house where Dr. Freud settled and received his patients after…
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A story of fleshThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Excerpt from All Flesh (Pushkin Press, 2026), translated from the French by Jeffrey Zuckerman.
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Fathers & SonsThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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For some of the men in Poshtarov’s photo series, it was the first time they held hands in years – even decades.