Empire
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The sea between
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« In order to survive amidst this bleak existence, the Mediterranean people established two distinct strategies: hopelessness or salvation. Some embraced hopelessness as the best way to approach the absurd condition of human life. »
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Sick men of EuropeThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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King Leopold & Sultan Abdülhamid — a tale of two monarchs. «I’ve come to see them as twins of a kind: monarchs in bourgeois garb.»
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Moscow on the MedThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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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.
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Photographer, refugee, kingThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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A family’s travelogue from Phnom Penh to Paris and back
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The big beige booksThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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The most important unreviewed books of our times, reviewed. On Xi Jinping’s The Governance of China, Volumes I to IV
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WHOOOOThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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A story about a lonely railway guard on a desolate steppe. « In the cursed August of 1991 the radio informed Kasatonov that there was a state of emergency in the capital. Then it fell silent, as if the receiver had broken. »
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A sangre fríaThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Fernanda Melchor’s prose hits you square in the face, but its lyricism works differently in Spanish. On Veracruzano modernism, lyrical slang, and worlds so new that style falls apart.
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The Archipelago Conversations, an excerpt — Interview with Édouard GlissantThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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An excerpt from The Archipelago Conversations with the late French Carribean philosopher and poet. « The archipelagos of the Mediterranean must encounter the archipelagos of Asia, and the archipelago of the Antilles. »
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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 breast is a breast is a breastThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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To contemplate Pompeii is to contemplate archeology in its most extreme form, framed by the wish not only for discovery, but for resurrection.
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Why we writeThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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A letter to George Orwell. « All narrative is hypnotic. Some narratives are more hypnotic than others. Because of you, we can be conscious of the kinds and the workings of the narratives that set out to deaden us, lessen us, make us lie, make us part of the lie. »
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Beyond thalassophobiaThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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German vice-chancellor Robert Habeck has more than twenty books to his name. It is tempting to read his fiction for glimpses of Green political futures, and his literary criticism for similar clues. How experimental can a literary politician be?