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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 the first time humanity is mourning in the future tense. »
« In order to survive amidst this bleak existence, the Mediterranean people established two distinct strategies: hopelessness or salvation. Some embraced hopelessness as the best way to approach the absurd condition of human life. »
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On the sanatoriums of Olga Tokarczuk’s The Empusium and Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain.
On pregnancy’s bloody histories & its visceral fictions. A review of Trudy Dehue’s brilliant history of pregnancy research, « Egg, Fetus, Baby ».
Rachel Kushner’s Creation Lake, reviewed. «If we discovered a Neanderthal novel, would we be worthy of it?»
Jane Austen valued fashion as an intrinsic part of one’s character — whether in her own life or in a novel.
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Writing advice is everywhere. Some of it might even be good! But we were interested in the bad.
A broad cast of characters who almost all speak to a solitary woe. This is Europe?
Online, pigeon water is what we swim in and slather on ourselves.
The Eisenthür silver mine is real; the village below is entirely fictive.
On the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Europe of European integration.
Mission: Impossible and Eurocentric stunts, from Hollywood to Hong Kong. What does an action movie want to be?
Forensic Architecture charts state-organized crimes, genocide and other disasters in three dimensions. « Flat maps can’t convey the politics of water and shit. »
Or, the art of the error
Dramatic economic inflations have punctuated twentieth-century political history. Is austerity a class strategy?
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