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The invention of austerityThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Dramatic economic inflations have punctuated twentieth-century political history. Is austerity a class strategy?
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No man’s landThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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On Edda Mussolini & fashionable fascism. Can a woman be dangerous yet powerless?
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The inborn germThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Why death? Who or what dies? Philosophers tend not to explain, but to justify. When do such questions become biological questions? Does it help?
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No money off a dead woman’s body (& other poems)This article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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« I like my tyrants like I like my heroes. That is, crushed by a giant chandelier. »
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When the world makes rags of usThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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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.
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Coagulated soy juiceThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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〖 A killed darling. 〗 Lucia Berlin belonged to a less sanctimonious age than ours.
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Flags & bonesThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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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?
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« When I was silent… » — Interview with Sulaiman AddoniaThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Stop! I am doing what they all do: presenting writer Sulaiman Addonia as one-who-has-suffered, because he grew up as a refugee. It is a problem of genre. Suffering has become…
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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.
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Two palindromesThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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→ → Pursuing / you lead me to come to the future.← ← coming to the future, I lead you / demanding.
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Kill your darlingsThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Like plots in a garden cemetery, with lamentations, good-riddances or other epitaphs.
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Gerard Croiset & the adventure of the psychic detectiveThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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The clairvoyant Dutch grocer who charted the frontiers of parapsychology and lent a hand to the FBI. « Unbelievable but true! »