Monarchy
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Child KingsThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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« Time is a child playing draughts; the kingship is a child’s. »
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Queen of the nightThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Maria Theresa, Habsburg empress, created the modern European state. To ponder her reign is to ask what the Enlightenment was — and is. Be careful with your nostalgias.
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Sick men of EuropeThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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King Leopold & Sultan Abdülhamid — a tale of two monarchs. «I’ve come to see them as twins of a kind: monarchs in bourgeois garb.»
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Two palindromesThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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→ Setting of the Sun at West Mountain / Puffing & panting ←→ Worm-eaten Rimbaud / Always knowing whom ←
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An archeology of the airThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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On Havelok the Dane, medieval air & the world’s largest wind farm
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Of human children & language children
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The first word I ever wrote was stsikukha: « pisser ». This is how my nanny Frosya called me to my face. On poetry and pathos in a bastard tongue.
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Glossomania-maniaThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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On language invention. To desire some other perfect language is at once to acknowledge and to overlook the miraculousness of what we have.
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To see a cityThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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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 deeply European.
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No one would have understood both the sentiment and the absurdity more keenly than Marx himself, whose face has adorned real currencies in more countries than anyone else’s, with the possible exception of Elizabeth II.
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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.
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A kayak in ZierikzeeThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Was a Dutch town founded by Inuits in the 9th century? On American discoveries of Europe.