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Essays


  • 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.

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  • « We are the winners of Eurovision »

    Lithuania has lost the Eurovision Song Contest thirty times.

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  • The size of longingThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.

    On Jacob Israël de Haan’s Palestine and Arnold Zweig’s novel of post‑Zionist disillusionment

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  • « Ça ira! There will be fire and enthusiasm in you »This article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.

    In search of Anthon van Rappard, Vincent van Gogh’s forgotten friend.

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  • Photographer, refugee, king

    A family’s travelogue from Phnom Penh to Paris and back

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  • And I stripped naked and became a manThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.

    The remarkable diary of third-century martyr Perpetua — a young mother sentenced to death — shows a soft, milky mother-body resisting a military-industrial empire. Texting with Fernanda Eberstadt SANDER PLEIJ Texting with Fernanda Eberstadt While on tour in the US and the UK, Fernanda Eberstadt answers a few questions about her new book Bite My Friends, via text. Portrait

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  • The case of the missing elephantThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.

    On animal charisma and animal vengeance. What happens when an elephant goes missing a year after her death.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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

    On Arnold, action cinema & Übermenschlichkeit. « Arnold Schwarzenegger was action cinema’s Adamic man, alternately entering and exiting normal human time. »

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