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  • A casa é sua

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

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

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  • Interview with Hazar Deniz Eker

    Interview with Hazar Deniz Eker

    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, « Feeling political together ». We texted Deniz about it and borders. ERB What is your relationship with borders? Hazar Deniz Eker Growing up between two…

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  • Open the drawer

    Open the drawer

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

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  • Texting with … Julia Kornberg

    « There’s a desire to set things on fire, to make the world anew. »

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  • Texting with … Daniel Gascón

    « They can’t monopolize your conversation. »

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  • Texting with … Nell Zink

    « When Americans rip off other people, nobody notices. »

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  • Texting with … Vincenzo Latronico

    « Nobody will want to read my book if I come across as a guy who quotes Kant on Whatsapp »

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  • Texting with … Julius Fintelmann

    With Julius Fintelmann the ERB’s Sander Pleij texted about a musical shooting on a rooftop…

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  • Texting with … Ece Temelkuran (1)

    With Ece Temelkuran the ERB’s Sander Pleij texts about envy…

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  • Texting with … Johanna SinisaloThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.

    With Johanna Sinisalo the ERB’s Sander Pleij texts about Finnish Weird…

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  • Texting with … Avery TrufelmanThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.

    With Avery Trufelman the ERB’s Sander Pleij text about novelty…

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  • Texting with … Kamil Ahsan

    With Kamil Ahsan the ERB’s Sander Pleij texted about editing a editing international yet regional magazines…

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

    Ripley and the enduring story of the white guy getting away with it. « Even with murder. Especially with murder! »

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

    A water superpower runs dry. A photo series from Hungary.

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  • Independence and/or DeathThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.

    Brazilian artist Jaime Lauriano recreated the iconic painting Independence or Death (1822). A scorched earth remains in his own Independence and Death (2022).

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  • Borrowed time is borrowed moneyThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.

    « We’re borrowing money from Germany, and nothing with ‘borrowed’ in the name sells. »〖  Found in translation  〗

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  • The Van Leer headquarters is not a fish tankThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.

    « The office of the future » is all well and good, but what can be learned from the offices of the past that have sustained? Like: The Van Leer Headquarters in Aalsmeer.

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  • Noise’s gripThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.

    On Malta, noise is the norm.

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