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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.
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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.
