Reviews
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On locationThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
Mission: Impossible and Eurocentric stunts, from Hollywood to Hong Kong. What does an action movie want to be?
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How to people a landscapeThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
On Cyril Schäublin’s Unrueh (2022), cinema & scale. « No other film has so resized me. »
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The cemetery-goerThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
On the travels of Karl-Markus Gauß, and the unlikely guardians of the dream of Europe.
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Doom is in the detailsThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
Floods, hailstorms, plague, fire, children lost on a mountain or trapped for years in a ruined villa. On the stories of Adalbert Stifter.
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The pulverization of memoryThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
Write your memoir in a hostile tongue. On Marina Jarre, from Latvia to Italy and back.
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Tragedy & farce in climate commentary
« We are fucked » vs. « It’s not too late ». The Club of Rome’s Earth for All offers a burst of stubborn optimism. But when does stubborn optimism become cruel optimism?
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The invention of austerityThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
Dramatic economic inflations have punctuated twentieth-century political history. Is austerity a class strategy?
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No man’s landThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
On Edda Mussolini & fashionable fascism. Can a woman be dangerous yet powerless?
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When the world makes rags of usThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
He spoke of painting like a starving man speaks of food. On Józef Czapski, Memories of Starobielsk and the art of observation.
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Flags & bonesThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
On Curzio Malaparte’s Europe — and ours. The midcentury novelist read anew, on war’s aftermath and transatlantic romance. What was, or is, « postwar Europe », anyway?
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Of human children & language children
The first word I ever wrote was stsikukha: « pisser ». This is how my nanny Frosya called me to my face. On poetry and pathos in a bastard tongue.
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Skinned aliveThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
Imagine your therapist assigned you to write your autobiography, after which you decided you were cured, so your therapist published it as revenge. Zeno’s Conscience turns 99.
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A sangre fríaThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
Fernanda Melchor’s prose hits you square in the face, but its lyricism works differently in Spanish. On Veracruzano modernism, lyrical slang, and worlds so new that style falls apart.
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Glossomania-maniaThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
On language invention. To desire some other perfect language is at once to acknowledge and to overlook the miraculousness of what we have.
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A recipe for word vomitThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
On pregnant silences, and how to abort them — via Jane Austen’s Lady Susan, Whit Stillman’s Love & Friendship and our own manners & morals.