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Ice queens, sex machinesThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Insofar as erotica can ever be about something, what is Russia-themed erotica about?
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« My ghost, we do no batshit »This article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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On the untranslatability of Ukrainian jokes
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Perhentian SunriseThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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A story about romance. « The eve of a suitor’s arrival, bigger than Christmas or birthday, I tell you. »
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Tragedy & farce in climate commentary
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« 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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Kill your darlingsThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Like plots in a garden cemetery, with lamentations, good-riddances or other epitaphs.
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MetaphrasisThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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A short story about fiction, from the author of Plunder.
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Eat the dustThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Søren Kierkegaard compared reading reviews of his books to « the long martyrdom of being trampled to death by geese. » What martyrdoms does today’s bookishness portend?
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On the anti-poetry of « crowdfunding campaign »
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Kickstarting used to be something you did to an engine. To « kickstart » the European Review of Books makes it feel like we’re riding a motorcycle in World War I. But…