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The cudgellers’ dilemmaThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
What Goya’s Black Paintings can tell us about current Spanish climate struggles.
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The pain-laden rhyme
An excerpt from a new biography on the life and poetry of Paul Celan.
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Feeling political together
A four-hour journey into populist algorithms, and a soup that never got made.
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The West’s West and the rest’s West
« To see the West as a process means that France was at one time westernized. Rome was westernized. Greece was westernized »
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My untranslatable nameThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
When my parents went to register my name after I was born, they carried out an especially elaborate plan. They acquired a chocolate bar
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Mapping starvation
On 21 August, Forensic Architecture, a London-based agency that investigates acts of state violence and lawlessness worldwide, released its latest project: « The Architecture of…
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Re-generationThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
Photos of young cocoa farmers in Côte d’Ivoire, who prove that after decades of depletion, soil recovery is possible.
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Yellow, mellow, smellow
The use of the colon in titling, and other laments.
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Sick men of EuropeThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
King Leopold & Sultan Abdülhamid — a tale of two monarchs. «I’ve come to see them as twins of a kind: monarchs in bourgeois garb.»
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Miracle & yonderThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
Paul Simon’s Graceland & country music’s global history. «The idea of anti-apartheid country music is counter-intuitive but profound.»
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The Three Body SolutionThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
The Chinese Communist Party embraces the sci-fi hit The Three Body Problem.
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Photographer, refugee, king
A family’s travelogue from Phnom Penh to Paris and back
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Issue Eleven