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No longer at homeThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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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.»
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Of wild men and horsesThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Pastoralism is the antidote to industrial farming. Kapka Kassabova treks with wild horses in one of Europe’s last wildernesses.
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Funny hahaThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Pretty much every European country has a satirical news site – all in the tradition of American example The Onion.
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The body in the crushed rosesThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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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.
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Something rottenThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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On the sanatoriums of Olga Tokarczuk’s The Empusium and Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain.
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« Tham dii day dii » – Thai farmworkers in IsraelThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Modern Zionism’s founding ideology, in which diaspora Jews would be redeemed by working the soil, has long ceded to neoliberalism’s imperatives
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The business of menThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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On pregnancy’s bloody histories & its visceral fictions. A review of Trudy Dehue’s brilliant history of pregnancy research, « Egg, Fetus, Baby ».
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Neanderthal aestheticsThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Rachel Kushner’s Creation Lake, reviewed. «If we discovered a Neanderthal novel, would we be worthy of it?»
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Blue memoirThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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A water superpower runs dry. A photo series from Hungary.
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Needle & penThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Jane Austen valued fashion as an intrinsic part of one’s character — whether in her own life or in a novel.
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Forage, farm, huntThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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A photographer asks: why bother making photographs?
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Down the mine shaftThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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A new book challenges the myth of photography’s immateriality.