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A letter to George Orwell. « All narrative is hypnotic. Some narratives are more hypnotic than others. Because of you, we can be conscious of the kinds and the workings…
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Unclaimed, claimed, unclaimableThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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On unrecognized states, micronations and curious border zones.
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Ukraine yesterday & tomorrow
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Ukraine didn’t become an epicenter of world history all of a sudden; it became an epicenter again.
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MetaphrasisThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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A short story about fiction, from the author of Plunder.
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It wasn’t the beerThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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How could it be that despite decades of rigorous European unification, of open borders and largely adjusted standards of living, a virus was able to kill up to 40 times…
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Eat the dustThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Søren Kierkegaard compared reading reviews of his books to « the long martyrdom of being trampled to death by geese. » What martyrdoms does today’s bookishness portend?
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Beyond thalassophobiaThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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German vice-chancellor Robert Habeck has more than twenty books to his name. It is tempting to read his fiction for glimpses of Green political futures, and his literary criticism for…
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How to write; or, how to insultThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Shoulders were slapped, fingers pointed, hearts fired up. Perhaps a little scuffle broke out after class, a boisterous wrestling over insults exchanged. Nothing to be concerned about. Acquiring knowledge was,…
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Who will speak European? A puzzleThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Brussels is a concave mirror that returns a concentrated (and somewhat distorted) reflection of the projection of its continent.
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On learning to write againThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Ramallah, downtown, fifth floor. The phone rings and the caller’s number appears on the screen. It’s an unknown number. And yet a call that comes at this hour must be…
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No one would have understood both the sentiment and the absurdity more keenly than Marx himself, whose face has adorned real currencies in more countries than anyone else’s, with the…
