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Issue Twelve

SEPTEMBER 2026

A pale, dusty peach – warmer than pink, softer than orange, like the last stretch of summer light. Meet Issue Twelve, out in September 2026. In this issue: the self-flagellation that is writing a human text, a visit to an Irish subsea cable landing station, winter as a disappearing cultural construct, and fascism’s libidinal thrill. Sex workers as markers of national character, and the translators of the Yugoslavia Tribunal as an invisible force. Polish foreign minister Radoslaw Sikorski saw it all coming, war photographer Lee Miller gets close to the edge. The ethics of paying attention, and the philosophy of designing books. Plus, a newly translated story by Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-1973) on a deadly family, and a quartet of essays touching on the question: how dead is international law?

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  • Lawyers of the world, unite?This article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.

    Ingo Venzke

    Law, it turns out, is capitalism’s operating system.

  • The man who told you soThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.

    Oksana Forostyna

    As his book of collected journalism shows, Polish journalist, defense minister and foreign minister Radosław Sikorski saw it all coming.

  • The third-generation gapThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.

    Benjamin Duerr

    Is international law dead, and if so, who killed it? Thomas Mann’s « Buddenbrooks » offers some insight.

  • BELIEVE IT!This article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.

    Fernanda Eberstadt

    Lee Miller brought surrealism to her war photography. She was humorous, generous and great fun. But « the stench of Dachau » never left her.

  • The geography of safetyThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.

    Jan Burzlaff

    Yugoslavia was Europe’s last open door for Jewish refugees fleeing Hitler. It was nobody’s dream.

  • Down to the wireThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.

    Aidan Tulloch

    A visit to an Irish subsea cable landing station. Its engineers need to know all about scallop fishers and Russian saboteurs.

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

    Peter Frederick Matthews

    The libidinal thrill in fascism: on the German far-right’s sexy phantoms.

  • Neve in AgostoThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.

    Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli

    Snow in August: Winter as a disappearing cultural construct.

  • Tits out for the motherland!This article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.

    Eva Payne

    Are French sex workers wittier? The prostitute as a marker of national sexual character.

  • Who’s your neighbor now?This article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.

    Frances Butler

    A Peruvian farmer sued German energy company RWE claiming damages for flood risk to his home in the Andes.

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  • Death will comeThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.

    Ingeborg Bachmann

    A newly translated story by the Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-1973). « P.S. Did you know that Uncle Karl died ten days ago of stomach cancer? »

  • A good interpreter is an invisible interpreterThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.

    Jorie Horsthuis and Martino Lombezzi

    In the interpreting booths of the Yugoslavia Tribunal, neutrality was the job.

  • Exiled in TorontoThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.

    John Christopher Vaughan

    Yugoslav writer Daša Drndić refused to be a « good refugee ».

  • Ink, paper, décentrementThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.

    Patrick Doan

    The ERB’s designer on the passion and philosophy of making books.

  • V’s posthumous victoryThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.

    Marco Mauer

    How the wrongful death of an orphan in Romania paved the way for a monumental climate change decision.

  • Listening practice

    Miriam Rasch

    When everyone can make themselves heard, who still cares to listen? Miriam Rasch offers a philosophical and personal exploration of listening as an ethics.

  • A casa é suaThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.

    Annelies Beck

    Belgian writer and TV journalist Annelies Beck writes to Turkish writer and thinker Ece Temelkuran – and to you.

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  • Crafting a human text is like wrestling a wild animal

    Wiegertje Postma

    On Cécile Wajsbrot’s « Nevermore », Eva Meijer’s « Een woord voor », and the constant self-flagellation that comes with putting words to paper.