pxl

Mountains

  • A Madman’s Tale

    A Madman’s TaleThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.

    « I guess it all began, » he said, « because of that weak-headedness my father sometimes had. It just rubbed me the wrong way. »

  • The plant whisperers

    The plant whisperers

    If you know what you are looking for, you find edible and healing plants everywhere.

  • Of wild men and horses

    Of wild men and horsesThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.

    Pastoralism is the antidote to industrial farming. Kapka Kassabova treks with wild horses in one of Europe’s last wildernesses.

  • Something rotten

    Something rottenThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.

    On the sanatoriums of Olga Tokarczuk’s The Empusium and Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain.

  • Hitchhiker

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

    A story about danger. « She wondered when he was going to ask her where she was going. »

  • Two palindromes

    Two palindromesThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.

    → Setting of the Sun at West Mountain / Puffing & panting ←→ Worm-eaten Rimbaud / Always knowing whom ←

  • Visit the extractocene!

    Visit the extractocene!This article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.

    The Eisenthür silver mine is real; the village below is entirely fictive.

  • On location

    On locationThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.

    Mission: Impossible and Eurocentric stunts, from Hollywood to Hong Kong. What does an action movie want to be?

  • Doom is in the details

    Doom is in the detailsThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.

    Floods, hailstorms, plague, fire, children lost on a mountain or trapped for years in a ruined villa. On the stories of Adalbert Stifter.

  • Two palindromes

    Two palindromesThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.

    → → Pursuing / you lead me to come to the future.← ← coming to the future, I lead you / demanding.

  • The Ogre, the Monk and the Maiden

    The Ogre, the Monk and the MaidenThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.

    A story about quarks and antiquarks, beauty quarks and strangelets, gluons, muons, prions, hadrons and charms.

  • By misadventure

    By misadventure

    A short story about vertigo from the author of Utopia Avenue, Cloud Atlas and Black Swan Green. « Possibly a dare, or a rite of passage, hung in the air. Remember their age: most late teenagers are immortal. »