Reviews
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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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What Sweden is, not
« Once the most social democratic country in Europe, and then, in the 1990s, the most neoliberal one, Sweden now aims to become the most nationalist one. »
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The political life of dreams
« Dreams could show an internalization of oppression just as easily as a resistance to oppression — which would mean a dream isn’t so free a realm after all. »
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Can AI have a headache?
« This summer my inner warrior was kissed back alive by an unlikely figure: the Pope. »
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The sea between
« 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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Glory to the railsThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
Millions of Ukrainians left the country during the first weeks of the invasion; four million were evacuated by train, including a million children. Thousands of dogs, cats and other pets, too.
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Queen of the nightThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
Maria Theresa, Habsburg empress, created the modern European state. To ponder her reign is to ask what the Enlightenment was — and is. Be careful with your nostalgias.
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The great schizophreniaThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
Austrian writer Marlen Haushofer & the enemy hiding in those we have to love.
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Men in the off hoursThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
On Gustave Caillebotte’s Impressionist butts.
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On learning to hate chickensThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
Two novelists (one Swiss, one Spanish) sign up for agricultural jobs.
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Double negative
Our first piece from Issue Eight, out from behind the paywall! « It’s best to go into Schengen’s history unshocked by contradiction. »
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To grieve, to pineThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
On Norwegian writer Vigdis Hjorth’s funerals & infatuations.
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No longer at homeThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
A review of Hangman: A Novel by Maya Binyam. «Returning home rests … as the thematic cornerstone of African and African-diasporic literature.»
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Something rottenThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
On the sanatoriums of Olga Tokarczuk’s The Empusium and Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain.
