Modernism
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The Palestinian seafront of the future — Joséphine Baker in HaifaThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Long ago, on the coast of Palestine, an elegant Modernist casino was frequented by Muslims, Christians, and Jews. One night in 1943 Joséphine Baker performed.
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Madame Blueberry’s insatiable wantThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Madame Bovary leaps into a modern time, a new medium and another biological kingdom.
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Corrupted, yet intactThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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On the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Europe of European integration.
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The Mass of MiesThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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« Less is more »? The scale and shape of his body gave the architect Mies van der Rohe an unequaled weight and architectural authority.
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Skinned aliveThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Imagine your therapist assigned you to write your autobiography, after which you decided you were cured, so your therapist published it as revenge. Zeno’s Conscience turns 99.
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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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Of Anders & KreuzwendedichThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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On two tales of racial metamorphosis, salted or sugared, one hundred years apart.
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Back to the officeThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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From the office of the future to the office of the past. What endures?
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How Americans edit sex out of my writingThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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What is editing? Two people who both lead a literary life — an augmented reality where the connections between existence and sentences are investigated daily — wage sensual war for the soul of the page.
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A messy optical process
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On orthodoxies & heresies of typography. To serif, or sans-serif?
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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 in Brazil, 1890-1945, Rafael Cardoso unravels the myth of 1922.