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  • Moscow on the Med

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    Two winters in Istanbul. If you are a holder of a Russian passport, there are few places in the Western hemisphere that you can go without a visa.

  • The coldest, cleanest water in Europe

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    Solitary sailing, and the philosophy thereof: What sort of writing is possible when the mind is at sea and so entirely occupied and swaddled?

  • Ice queens, sex machines

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    Insofar as erotica can ever be about something, what is Russia-themed erotica about?

  • What an animal isn’t

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    Two vastly different books — one a picaresque tale, the other a dystopian meditation — both recount a transition from human to animal or from animal to human.

  • « Everything starts with fire » — Interview with Hélène Cixous

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    « The smell was like the sharp notes of a trumpet, a sort of rat-tat-tat like a burst of gunfire, a bombardment. »

  • Jesus in the pines

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    Refugees and border guards in the Białowieża Forest. Scenes of violence play out behind a thick cover of trees, in a remote corner of Poland.

  • « The hope of future Pan-African socialism »This article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.

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    A group of « skinny Black lads » enroll at Leipzig’s Karl Marx University in East Germany. An excerpt from Jackie Thomae’s novel Brothers.

  • 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

  • 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. »