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The pain-laden rhyme
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An excerpt from a new biography on the life and poetry of Paul Celan.
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It’s all about poetic swimmersThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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« I am a philosopher, and philosophers do not often like to use big words. »
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Interview with Hazar Deniz Eker
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After a particularly active Current Preoccupation from mid-April 2026 — featuring a walk to the Belgian-French border and Issue Eleven contributor Hazar Deniz Eker — we published his essay, «…
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Feeling political togetherThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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A four-hour journey into populist algorithms, and a soup that never got made.
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The West’s West and the rest’s West
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« To see the West as a process means that France was at one time westernized. Rome was westernized. Greece was westernized »
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Saving the angel
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« This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps…
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On being plagiarized
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« To write a biography about a writer like Kiš is a violation of the poetics of the very author it claims to revere. »
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Open the drawer
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Visiting his hometown, Tartus, he opened a drawer of old family photographs.