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Issue Two

  • The Van Leer headquarters is not a fish tank

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    « The office of the future » is all well and good, but what can be learned from the offices of the past that have sustained? Like: The Van Leer…

  • No money off a dead woman’s body (& other poems)

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    « I like my tyrants like I like my heroes. That is, crushed by a giant chandelier. »

  • When the world makes rags of us

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    He spoke of painting like a starving man speaks of food. On Józef Czapski, Memories of Starobielsk and the art of observation.

  • Coagulated soy juice

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    〖  A killed darling. 〗 Lucia Berlin belonged to a less sanctimonious age than ours.

  • Flags & bones

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    On Curzio Malaparte’s Europe — and ours. The midcentury novelist read anew, on war’s aftermath and transatlantic romance. What was, or is, « postwar Europe », anyway?

  • Of human children & language children

    Of human children & language children

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    The first word I ever wrote was stsikukha: « pisser ». This is how my nanny Frosya called me to my face. On poetry and pathos in a bastard tongue.

  • Two palindromes

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    → → Pursuing / you lead me to come to the future.← ← coming to the future, I lead you / demanding.

  • Kill your darlings

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    Like plots in a garden cemetery, with lamentations, good-riddances or other epitaphs.

  • Gerard Croiset & the adventure of the psychic detective

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    The clairvoyant Dutch grocer who charted the frontiers of parapsychology and lent a hand to the FBI. « Unbelievable but true! »

  • Skinned alive

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    Imagine your therapist assigned you to write your autobiography, after which you decided you were cured, so your therapist published it as revenge. Zeno’s Conscience turns 99.

  • A sangre fría

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    Fernanda Melchor’s prose hits you square in the face, but its lyricism works differently in Spanish. On Veracruzano modernism, lyrical slang, and worlds so new that style falls apart.

  • The Archipelago Conversations, an excerpt — Interview with Édouard Glissant

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    An excerpt from The Archipelago Conversations with the late French Carribean philosopher and poet. « The archipelagos of the Mediterranean must encounter the archipelagos of Asia, and the archipelago of…