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  • Gerard Croiset & the adventure of the psychic detective

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    The clairvoyant Dutch grocer who charted the frontiers of parapsychology and lent a hand to the FBI. « Unbelievable but true! »

  • Bee Gees FAQ

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    Fragen, Antworten, Quintessenzen.

  • To see a city

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    « What if all fictional characters from novels continue to dwell somewhere, just like the dead? » Sewn together, the fragmented narratives of Daniela Hodrová’s City of Torment (Trýznivé město) make something…

  • Ballad of a Homburg hat

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    On racial metonymy and the art of misidentification. (Meanwhile: has a glass of beer ever been more crisply and deliciously depicted? Has the froth of a European pilsner ever looked…

  • The prodigal half-rooster

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    Maggie Nelson’s On Freedom and Lea Ypi’s Free spoke past one another from half a world away. But both ask whether freedoms mean anything if they are not practiced in…

  • Why we write

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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…

  • VOID FILL

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    On multinational packaging systems, « inflated fictions of transparency », desire and fulfillment.

  • A messy optical process

    A messy optical process

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    On orthodoxies & heresies of typography. To serif, or sans-serif?

  • The myth of 1922

    The myth of 1922

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    What does modern mean? In Brazil, it often meant an embrace of newness as the possibility of reinvention. In Modernity in Black and White: Art and Image, Race and Identity…

  • The final frontier

    The final frontier

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    New short fiction from the author of Autumn, Winter, Spring, and Summer. A story about what’s ours and what’s not ours.

  • On the anti-poetry of « crowdfunding campaign »

    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…