Issue One
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Who will speak European? A puzzleThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Brussels is a concave mirror that returns a concentrated (and somewhat distorted) reflection of the projection of its continent.
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On learning to write againThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Ramallah, downtown, fifth floor. The phone rings and the caller’s number appears on the screen. It’s an unknown number. And yet a call that comes at this hour must be answered.
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No one would have understood both the sentiment and the absurdity more keenly than Marx himself, whose face has adorned real currencies in more countries than anyone else’s, with the possible exception of Elizabeth II.
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Cretan Europa’s second comingThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Citizen’s day in Fiesole, December 2021. In the EU, Christian Europe stands in quantum superposition, both here and not here. Can Cretan Europa help us imagine better futures?
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Woman is spaceThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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« Space », or prostranstvo, is a key word for understanding the literary and philosophical history of Russia. Oksana Vasyakina’s Rana (Wound), a Siberian road novel, remakes the Russian landscape and the Russian novel for women’s worlds. It renders prostranstvo unruly, polysemous, queer.
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Firsts in spaceThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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A friend of mine likes to say that the moon landing was real, but dumb. On astronautical tokenism.
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By misadventure
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A short story about vertigo from the author of Utopia Avenue, Cloud Atlas and Black Swan Green. « Possibly a dare, or a rite of passage, hung in the air. Remember their age: most late teenagers are immortal. »
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A kayak in ZierikzeeThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Was a Dutch town founded by Inuits in the 9th century? On American discoveries of Europe.
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Only stupidity is hereditary
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There sits a donkey before an open book, held between his forehooves in such a way that we can clearly see the pages. It is a family tree of sorts, with eight rows of seventeen standing donkeys.
