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Issue Four

  • The big beige books

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    The most important unreviewed books of our times, reviewed. On Xi Jinping’s The Governance of China, Volumes I to IV

  • Trouble at work and home while my son is abroad

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    A story about living. « I have a family and I have a job and I have a teaching gig, and these things have me. »

  • Bad writing advice

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    Writing advice is everywhere. Some of it might even be good! But we were interested in the bad.

  • Europe disenchanted

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    A broad cast of characters who almost all speak to a solitary woe. This is Europe?

  • Art before art

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    On Paleolithic painters & speculative criticism.

  • Forget your darlings

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    On memory palaces, medieval and modern. A medieval woman’s life would not have taken the form of a straight line.

  • Pigeon Water

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    Online, pigeon water is what we swim in and slather on ourselves.

  • Visit the extractocene!

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    The Eisenthür silver mine is real; the village below is entirely fictive.

  • Five uneasy pieces

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    How I stopped being an older brother (& other stories)

  • Streuselkuchen

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    A story about coolness. « The phone rings. It is Jim Jarmusch, and he asks if I want to come over to his place. »

  • Schwarzeneggerology

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    On Arnold, action cinema & Übermenschlichkeit. « Arnold Schwarzenegger was action cinema’s Adamic man, alternately entering and exiting normal human time. »