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  • « When I was silent… » — Interview with Sulaiman Addonia

    « When I was silent… » — Interview with Sulaiman AddoniaThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.

    Stop! I am doing what they all do: presenting writer Sulaiman Addonia as one-who-has-suffered, because he grew up as a refugee. It is a problem of genre. Suffering has become an interviewer’s crutch.

  • All is not vanity

    All is not vanityThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.

    Lose, delete, restore. What to remember when everything is always, forever, in a digital now?

  • Europas & bulls

    Europas & bulls

    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.

  • A breast is a breast is a breast

    A breast is a breast is a breastThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.

    To contemplate Pompeii is to contemplate archeology in its most extreme form, framed by the wish not only for discovery, but for resurrection.

  • 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 so delectable?)