Issue One
JUNE 2022
Our first print issue, sprawling by design. Essays spanning the archaeological and the astronautical. Reviews of old books in new translation, and reviews of new books in non-translation. Plus fiction, poetry, anecdote, remembrance, collage, photography, and questions-not-so-frequently-asked.
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« When I was silent… » — Interview with Sulaiman AddoniaThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
Stop! I am doing what they all do: presenting writer Sulaiman Addonia as one-who-has-suffered, because…
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Animal Anti-CitiesThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
« A black cat sneaks across a flower bed toward a shed, past some asters,…
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Sugar MouseThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
A poem, plus a note on tongue-like mice and the translation of mice-like tongues.
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Into the muckThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
Time? For? Socialism? What happened when Thomas Piketty descended from the elegant mathematical Olympus of…
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All is not vanityThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
Lose, delete, restore. What to remember when everything is always, forever, in a digital now?
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Bee Gees FAQThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
Fragen, Antworten, Quintessenzen.
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To see a cityThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
« What if all fictional characters from novels continue to dwell somewhere, just like the dead? »…
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Optimize this headline for Google*This article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
Google’s rise to dominance can seem inevitable, and its power over publishers monolithic. Yet Google’s…
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What is a pillar?This article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
In 2010, OMA was invited to take part in a competition for the Damascus National…
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On paths not takenThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
« Genocide Studies » is a house with many rooms. It accommodates and even encourages…
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A breast is a breast is a breastThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
To contemplate Pompeii is to contemplate archeology in its most extreme form, framed by the…
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Place, non-place, placeThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
« What happened was that we were driving on the highway from Izola towards Koper…
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Ballad of a Homburg hatThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
On racial metonymy and the art of misidentification. (Meanwhile: has a glass of beer ever…
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The prodigal half-roosterThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
Maggie Nelson’s On Freedom and Lea Ypi’s Free spoke past one another from half a…
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The void that fills the voidThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
Relics, and the places devoted to their worship, dotted the map of Europe and the…
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Why we writeThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
A letter to George Orwell. « All narrative is hypnotic. Some narratives are more hypnotic…
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Unclaimed, claimed, unclaimableThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
On unrecognized states, micronations and curious border zones.
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Ukraine yesterday & tomorrow
Ukraine didn’t become an epicenter of world history all of a sudden; it became an…
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It wasn’t the beerThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
How could it be that despite decades of rigorous European unification, of open borders and…
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Eat the dustThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
Søren Kierkegaard compared reading reviews of his books to « the long martyrdom of being trampled…
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Beyond thalassophobiaThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
German vice-chancellor Robert Habeck has more than twenty books to his name. It is tempting…
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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.
Shoulders were slapped, fingers pointed, hearts fired up. Perhaps a little scuffle broke out after…
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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.
Brussels is a concave mirror that returns a concentrated (and somewhat distorted) reflection of the…
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On learning to write againThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
Ramallah, downtown, fifth floor. The phone rings and the caller’s number appears on the screen.…
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Cretan Europa’s second comingThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
Citizen’s day in Fiesole, December 2021. In the EU, Christian Europe stands in quantum superposition,…
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Woman is spaceThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
« Space », or prostranstvo, is a key word for understanding the literary and philosophical history of…
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Firsts in spaceThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
A friend of mine likes to say that the moon landing was real, but dumb.…
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A kayak in ZierikzeeThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
Was a Dutch town founded by Inuits in the 9th century? On American discoveries of…
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Only stupidity is hereditary
There sits a donkey before an open book, held between his forehooves in such a…