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Block 3

  • Yellow, mellow, smellow

    Yellow, mellow, smellow

    The use of the colon in titling, and other laments.

  • Sick men of Europe

    Sick men of EuropeThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.

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

  • 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.»

  • The Three Body Solution

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    The Chinese Communist Party embraces the sci-fi hit The Three Body Problem.

  • The original Dybbuk

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    A story about afterlife. « A saint! What do you mean he’s a saint! the scholar says. He’s a librarian! Are librarians saints? »

  • Bad writing advice

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    Writing advice is everywhere. Some of it might even be good! But we were interested in the bad.

  • Europe disenchanted

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    A broad cast of characters who almost all speak to a solitary woe. This is Europe?

  • Pigeon Water

    Pigeon WaterThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.

    Online, pigeon water is what we swim in and slather on ourselves.

  • Visit the extractocene!

    Visit the extractocene!This article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.

    The Eisenthür silver mine is real; the village below is entirely fictive.

  • Corrupted, yet intact

    Corrupted, yet intactThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.

    On the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Europe of European integration.

  • On location

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    Mission: Impossible and Eurocentric stunts, from Hollywood to Hong Kong. What does an action movie want to be?

  • An axe to grind should make you sharper

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    Forensic Architecture charts state-organized crimes, genocide and other disasters in three dimensions. « Flat maps can’t convey the politics of water and shit. »