Ancestry
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A Madman’s Tale
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« I guess it all began, » he said, « because of that weak-headedness my father sometimes had. It just rubbed me the wrong way. »
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Talk Proto-Indo-European to me, darling
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*wīrós (man), *h₁ék̂wōs (horse), *gwéneh₂ (woman)
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Queen of the night
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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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My untranslatable name
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When my parents went to register my name after I was born, they carried out an especially elaborate plan. They acquired a chocolate bar
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There was once a woman who
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A surprisingly rhyming excerpt from Inger Christensen’s novella « Natalja’s Stories ».
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No longer at home
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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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Neanderthal aesthetics
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Rachel Kushner’s Creation Lake, reviewed. «If we discovered a Neanderthal novel, would we be worthy of it?»
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An archeology of the air
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On Havelok the Dane, medieval air & the world’s largest wind farm
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The Ogre, the Monk and the Maiden
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A story about quarks and antiquarks, beauty quarks and strangelets, gluons, muons, prions, hadrons and charms.
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Europas & bulls
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A logo might start as a designer’s whim. Only then does one look for meanings to fill it with. On Europas: mythic, artistic, fictional, political, psychological, satirical, and finally unfinished.
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A kayak in Zierikzee
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Was a Dutch town founded by Inuits in the 9th century? On American discoveries of Europe.