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Issue Ten.

Issue Eight

APRIL 2025

Around the world in strawberry red. Schengen’s pseudo-borderless « Europe ». A day in Minsk & an eternity at the border. A trip through Syria’s now-uninhabited terror apparatus (archivists needed). Cocoa farmers in Côte d’Ivoire, agricultural-novelists in Switzerland & France, tree-huggers in The Hague.

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

    Maroussia Mbaye

    Photos of young cocoa farmers in Côte d’Ivoire, who prove that after decades of depletion, soil recovery is possible.

  • Yellow, mellow, smellow

    Peter Baldwin

    The use of the colon in titling, and other laments.

  • Madame Blueberry’s insatiable wantThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.

    Cecelia Ramsey

    Madame Bovary leaps into a modern time, a new medium and another biological kingdom.

  • Tree illness as metaphorThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.

    Ann Marie Wilson

    What do we tell ourselves when all the trees simply vanish?

  • 20 years of EUROPEANS

    Yamandú Roos

    Forty countries, fifteen thousand photographs

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

    Nikianna Dinenis

    Austrian writer Marlen Haushofer & the enemy hiding in those we have to love.

  • Men in the off hoursThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.

    Fernanda Eberstadt

    On Gustave Caillebotte’s Impressionist butts.

  • On learning to hate chickensThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.

    Tania Roettger

    Two novelists (one Swiss, one Spanish) sign up for agricultural jobs.

  • Double negative

    George Blaustein

    Our first piece from Issue Eight, out from behind the paywall! « It’s best to go into Schengen’s history unshocked by contradiction. »

  • Texting with … Jonathan Buckley

    Sander Pleij

    « There’s a plan, but the plan always changes. »

  • The shortest, longest bus tripThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.

    Paula Domingo Pasarín

    Travelogue of a day in Minsk & an eternity at the EU border.

  • Bethlehem, Jericho & a view of JerusalemThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.

    Karim Kattan

    A Palestinian writer mentally retreats to three unreadable cities.

  • How to abandon an archiveThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.

    Ali Aljasem and Uğur Ümit Üngör

    When an authoritarian regime collapses, what happens to the archives of its secret police?

  • Texting with … Julia Kornberg

    Sander Pleij

    « There’s a desire to set things on fire, to make the world anew. »

  • There was once a woman who

    Inger Christensen

    A surprisingly rhyming excerpt from Inger Christensen’s novella « Natalja’s Stories ».

  • Texting with … Daniel Gascón

    Sander Pleij

    « They can’t monopolize your conversation. »

  • To grieve, to pineThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.

    Samir Chadha

    On Norwegian writer Vigdis Hjorth’s funerals & infatuations.

  • Texting with … Nell Zink

    Sander Pleij

    « When Americans rip off other people, nobody notices. »

  • One last round | Son bir şansThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.

    Ece Temelkuran

    English or Turkish? Tipsy or çakırkeyf? A letter to a bi-lingual editor

  • Texting with … Vincenzo Latronico

    Sander Pleij

    « Nobody will want to read my book if I come across as a guy who quotes Kant on Whatsapp »