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Library: Pearls
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Neve in AgostoThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Snow in August: Winter as a disappearing cultural construct.
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Who’s your neighbor now?This article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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A Peruvian farmer sued German energy company RWE claiming damages for flood risk to his home in the Andes.
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V’s posthumous victoryThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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How the wrongful death of an orphan in Romania paved the way for a monumental climate change decision.
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A casa é suaThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Belgian writer and TV journalist Annelies Beck writes to Turkish writer and thinker Ece Temelkuran – and to you. « I’ve never seen so many octogenarians dance to live music with…
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Interview with Hazar Deniz Eker
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After a particularly active Current Preoccupation from mid-April 2026 — featuring a walk to the Belgian-French border and Issue Eleven contributor Hazar Deniz Eker — we published his essay, «…
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Open the drawer
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Visiting his hometown, Tartus, he opened a drawer of old family photographs.
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A woman in Tangiers: against erasure
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« I detect the head of a mannequin. Then the grains get too coarse. »
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A letter from
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« Even if you feel at home in time and space today, you know that you are already in mourning for the future loss of everything that is beautiful. This is…
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Texting with … Lilia Topouzova
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I wanted to show that history and memory are inseparable—and that unsilencing is itself a method.
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Babushka Z CosplayThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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A Ukrainian great-grandmother inadvertently becomes a pro-Russian icon.
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Child KingsThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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« Time is a child playing draughts; the kingship is a child’s. »
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Of trotting horses & angelic wordsThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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I was reminded of Muybridge’s moving pictures while looking at the serial attempts of Ambrogio Lorenzetti (d. 1348/49) at rendering the invisible visible.