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  • Double negative

    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. »

  • The shortest, longest bus trip

    The shortest, longest bus tripThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.

    Travelogue of a day in Minsk & an eternity at the EU border.

  • Bethlehem, Jericho & a view of Jerusalem

    Bethlehem, Jericho & a view of JerusalemThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.

    A Palestinian writer mentally retreats to three unreadable cities.

  • Moscow on the Med

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    Two winters in Istanbul. If you are a holder of a Russian passport, there are few places in the Western hemisphere that you can go without a visa.

  • Jesus in the pines

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    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.

  • Photographer, refugee, king

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    A family’s travelogue from Phnom Penh to Paris and back

  • Every end has a start

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    In 2005, Yamandú Roos embarked on the photographic project Europeans: one continent, forty countries, 65.000 kilometers.

  • Europe disenchanted

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    A broad cast of characters who almost all speak to a solitary woe. This is Europe?

  • Five uneasy pieces

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    How I stopped being an older brother (& other stories)

  • When the world makes rags of us

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    He spoke of painting like a starving man speaks of food. On Józef Czapski, Memories of Starobielsk and the art of observation.

  • Planes, tanks & automobiles

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    You could tell the US army had arrived because the local garages had sold out of whiskey. Old maps, new wars & vanishing memories along the Polish-Ukrainian border.

  • Borderland

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    The great storm surge is coming, it has always been coming in the borderland between Denmark and Germany. Here, Danish writer Dorthe Nors visits the Frisian Wadden Sea island of Sylt, as part of her travels along the North Sea coast.