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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.»
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Of wild men and horsesThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
Pastoralism is the antidote to industrial farming. Kapka Kassabova treks with wild horses in one of Europe’s last wildernesses.
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Miracle & yonderThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
Paul Simon’s Graceland & country music’s global history. «The idea of anti-apartheid country music is counter-intuitive but profound.»
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Funny hahaThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
Pretty much every European country has a satirical news site – all in the tradition of American example The Onion.
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The Three Body SolutionThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
The Chinese Communist Party embraces the sci-fi hit The Three Body Problem.
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The business of menThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
On pregnancy’s bloody histories & its visceral fictions. A review of Trudy Dehue’s brilliant history of pregnancy research, « Egg, Fetus, Baby ».
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Neanderthal aestheticsThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
Rachel Kushner’s Creation Lake, reviewed. «If we discovered a Neanderthal novel, would we be worthy of it?»
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InterjectionsThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
Non-words for the remembered & unremembered violence of Bulgarian labor camps.
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The Barren Nothing-PlaceThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
On growing up in the creases of bilingual versions of T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land
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Letters from PersepolisThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
On the ruined city’s pilgrims & decoders
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Forage, farm, huntThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
A photographer asks: why bother making photographs?
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Without causeThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
« The exercise here is of a philosopher who would review the AI Act as a text. »
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The Mothers GrimmThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
What ties Gretel to her witch? Louise Glück’s poem Gretel in Darkness provides answers.
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The anarcho-astrologerThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
Javier Milei, literarily considered
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Moscow on the MedThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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.