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.
Double negative
Our first piece from Issue Eight, out from behind the paywall! « It’s best to go into Schengen’s history unshocked by contradiction. »
Bethlehem, Jericho & a view of Jerusalem
A Palestinian writer mentally retreats to three unreadable cities.
How to abandon an archive
When an authoritarian regime collapses, what happens to the archives of its secret police?
Re-generation
Photos of young cocoa farmers in Côte d’Ivoire, who prove that after decades of depletion, soil recovery is possible.
The great schizophrenia
Austrian writer Marlen Haushofer & the enemy hiding in those we have to love.
One last round | Son bir şans
English or Turkish? Tipsy or çakırkeyf? A letter to a bi-lingual editor
Madame Blueberry’s insatiable want
Madame Bovary leaps into a modern time, a new medium and another biological kingdom.
Texting with … Vincenzo Latronico
« Nobody will want to read my book if I come across as a guy who quotes Kant on Whatsapp »