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Frontiers

  • The sea between

    The sea between

    « 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. »

  • The shortest, longest bus trip

    The shortest, longest bus tripThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.

    Travelogue of a day in Minsk & an eternity at the EU border.

  • Woman is space

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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.

  • Firsts in space

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    A friend of mine likes to say that the moon landing was real, but dumb. On astronautical tokenism.

  • The final frontier

    The final frontier

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