Reviews
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The business of menThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
On pregnancy’s bloody histories & its visceral fictions. A review of Trudy Dehue’s brilliant history of pregnancy research, « Egg, Fetus, Baby ».
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Neanderthal aestheticsThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
Rachel Kushner’s Creation Lake, reviewed. «If we discovered a Neanderthal novel, would we be worthy of it?»
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Needle & penThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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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Down the mine shaftThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
A new book challenges the myth of photography’s immateriality.
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Without causeThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
« The exercise here is of a philosopher who would review the AI Act as a text. »
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The coldest, cleanest water in EuropeThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
Solitary sailing, and the philosophy thereof: What sort of writing is possible when the mind is at sea and so entirely occupied and swaddled?
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Last resortThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
On Dora Kellner, Walter Benjamin and the biography of a hotel
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Ice queens, sex machinesThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
Insofar as erotica can ever be about something, what is Russia-themed erotica about?
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CannibalinguisticsThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
Language-learning and people-eating in Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi’s The Centre.
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What an animal isn’tThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
Two vastly different books — one a picaresque tale, the other a dystopian meditation — both recount a transition from human to animal or from animal to human.
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Jesus in the pinesThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
Refugees and border guards in the Białowieża Forest. Scenes of violence play out behind a thick cover of trees, in a remote corner of Poland.
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The big beige booksThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
The most important unreviewed books of our times, reviewed. On Xi Jinping’s The Governance of China, Volumes I to IV
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Europe disenchantedThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
A broad cast of characters who almost all speak to a solitary woe. This is Europe?
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Art before artThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
On Paleolithic painters & speculative criticism.
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Forget your darlingsThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
On memory palaces, medieval and modern. A medieval woman’s life would not have taken the form of a straight line.