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  • Flags & bones

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    On Curzio Malaparte’s Europe — and ours. The midcentury novelist read anew, on war’s aftermath and transatlantic romance. What was, or is, « postwar Europe », anyway?

  • 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.

  • Unclaimed, claimed, unclaimable

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    On unrecognized states, micronations and curious border zones.

  • The pinnacle of cartography is the pinnacle of uselessness

    The pinnacle of cartography is the pinnacle of uselessness

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    « Europe », drawn from memory or intuition. Thick and thin strokes of charcoal: a nod to the coal and steel on which the polity of modern Europe is founded. But more…