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Issue Seven

  • Texting with … Kamil Ahsan

    Texting with … Kamil Ahsan

    With Kamil Ahsan the ERB’s Sander Pleij texted about editing a editing international yet regional magazines…

  • The underbelly of Krochmalna Street

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    Why aren’t Isaac Bashevis Singer’s gangster novels published in English?

  • TWGGAWI™

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    Ripley and the enduring story of the white guy getting away with it. « Even with murder. Especially with murder! »

  • Parallel world

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    Photos of a Thai village that, due to coastal erosion, is slowly but surely giving way to the sea.

  • Let’s enjoy the moon

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    Eight young women live in a college run by nuns in Rome; an excerpt from Alba de Céspedes’ There’s No Turning Back (Nessuno Torna Indietro).

  • No longer at home

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    A review of Hangman: A Novel by Maya Binyam. «Returning home rests … as the thematic cornerstone of African and African-diasporic literature.»

  • Sick men of Europe

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    King Leopold & Sultan Abdülhamid — a tale of two monarchs. «I’ve come to see them as twins of a kind: monarchs in bourgeois garb.»

  • Of wild men and horses

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    Pastoralism is the antidote to industrial farming. Kapka Kassabova treks with wild horses in one of Europe’s last wildernesses.

  • Miracle & yonder

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    Paul Simon’s Graceland & country music’s global history. «The idea of anti-apartheid country music is counter-intuitive but profound.»

  • Funny haha

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    Pretty much every European country has a satirical news site – all in the tradition of American example The Onion.

  • The body in the crushed roses

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    Excerpt from Sergei Lebedev’s new novel The Lady of the Mine (2025), set near a Ukrainian coal mine that buries atrocities from the past.

  • Something rotten

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    On the sanatoriums of Olga Tokarczuk’s The Empusium and Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain.