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Issue Ten.

Death

  • So, kill him [at Aulide]

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    here he is        in his bed, so scared                 he can’t move

  • There was once a woman who

    There was once a woman who

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    A surprisingly rhyming excerpt from Inger Christensen’s novella « Natalja’s Stories ».

  • To grieve, to pine

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    On Norwegian writer Vigdis Hjorth’s funerals & infatuations.

  • The body in the crushed roses

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    Excerpt from Sergei Lebedev’s new novel The Lady of the Mine (2025), set near a Ukrainian coal mine that buries atrocities from the past.

  • Word War

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    A story about destruction: « In a matter of minutes, the target is neutralised, the word is erased. »

  • Independence and/or Death

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    Brazilian artist Jaime Lauriano recreated the iconic painting Independence or Death (1822). A scorched earth remains in his own Independence and Death (2022).

  • 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.

  • « Ça ira! There will be fire and enthusiasm in you »

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    In search of Anthon van Rappard, Vincent van Gogh’s forgotten friend.

  • Two palindromes

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    → Setting of the Sun at West Mountain / Puffing & panting ←→ Worm-eaten Rimbaud / Always knowing whom ←

  • The original Dybbuk

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    A story about afterlife. « A saint! What do you mean he’s a saint! the scholar says. He’s a librarian! Are librarians saints? »

  • Schwarzeneggerology

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    On Arnold, action cinema & Übermenschlichkeit. « Arnold Schwarzenegger was action cinema’s Adamic man, alternately entering and exiting normal human time. »