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  • Interview with Hazar Deniz Eker

    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, «…

  • Open the drawer

    Open the drawer

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    Visiting his hometown, Tartus, he opened a drawer of old family photographs.

  • A woman in Tangiers: against erasure

    A woman in Tangiers: against erasure

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    « I detect the head of a mannequin. Then the grains get too coarse. »

  • A letter from

    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…

  • Texting with … Lilia Topouzova

    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.

  • Babushka Z Cosplay

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    A Ukrainian great-grandmother inadvertently becomes a pro-Russian icon.

  • Child Kings

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    « Time is a child playing draughts; the kingship is a child’s. »

  • Of trotting horses & angelic words

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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.

  • Texting with … Ece Temelkuran (2)

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    « We are not aware of how defeated we are as intellectuals. »

  • Honorable men sowed this war

    Honorable men sowed this war

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    Six poems

  • So, kill him [at Aulide]

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    here he is        in his bed, so scared                 he can’t move

  • Madame Blueberry’s insatiable want

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