Divinity
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Can AI have a headache?
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« This summer my inner warrior was kissed back alive by an unlikely figure: the Pope. »
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Child KingsThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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« Time is a child playing draughts; the kingship is a child’s. »
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Of trotting horses & angelic wordsThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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I was reminded of Muybridge’s moving pictures while looking at the serial attempts of Ambrogio Lorenzetti (d. 1348/49) at rendering the invisible visible.
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Let’s enjoy the moonThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Eight young women live in a college run by nuns in Rome; an excerpt from Alba de Céspedes’ There’s No Turning Back (Nessuno Torna Indietro).
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What an animal isn’tThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Two vastly different books — one a picaresque tale, the other a dystopian meditation — both recount a transition from human to animal or from animal to human.
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HitchhikerThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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A story about danger. « She wondered when he was going to ask her where she was going. »
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A Silence SharedThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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« If a story just like that one — dying babies, divine retribution — had come back to me from childhood memories, it would have seemed fantastical, unreal. »
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Two palindromesThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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→ → Pursuing / you lead me to come to the future.← ← coming to the future, I lead you / demanding.
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Gerard Croiset & the adventure of the psychic detectiveThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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The clairvoyant Dutch grocer who charted the frontiers of parapsychology and lent a hand to the FBI. « Unbelievable but true! »
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Glossomania-maniaThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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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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The void that fills the voidThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Relics, and the places devoted to their worship, dotted the map of Europe and the Middle East. Saints, like today’s celebrities, were both omnipresent and faraway, once-vulnerable people who became something more than human.
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Woman is spaceThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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« Space », or prostranstvo, is a key word for understanding the literary and philosophical history of Russia. Oksana Vasyakina’s Rana (Wound), a Siberian road novel, remakes the Russian landscape and the Russian novel for women’s worlds. It renders prostranstvo unruly, polysemous, queer.