Issue Four
NOVEMBER 2023
Issue Four is blue – sky blue. In its pages: Schwarzeneggerology, Xi Jinping’s big beige books, peripheral Europe, art avant l’art, palindrome divas, medieval darlings, Jim Jarmusch baking a cake and S. Ansky sharing a secret from beyond the grave. Plus: some truly bad writing advice.
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« Humanity lies only in the details »This article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
Bad writing advice.
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Two palindromesThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
→ Setting of the Sun at West Mountain / Puffing & panting ←→ Worm-eaten Rimbaud / Always knowing whom ←
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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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The big beige booksThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
The most important unreviewed books of our times, reviewed. On Xi Jinping’s The Governance of China, Volumes I to IV
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Bad writing adviceThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
Writing advice is everywhere. Some of it might even be good! But we were interested in the bad.
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Europe disenchantedThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
A broad cast of characters who almost all speak to a solitary woe. This is Europe?
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Art before artThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
On Paleolithic painters & speculative criticism.
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Forget your darlingsThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
On memory palaces, medieval and modern. A medieval woman’s life would not have taken the form of a straight line.
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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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Five uneasy piecesThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
How I stopped being an older brother (& other stories)
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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. »