Relics
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To grieve, to pineThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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On Norwegian writer Vigdis Hjorth’s funerals & infatuations.
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The case of the missing elephantThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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On animal charisma and animal vengeance. What happens when an elephant goes missing a year after her death.
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Art before artThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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On Paleolithic painters & speculative criticism.
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A breast is a breast is a breastThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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To contemplate Pompeii is to contemplate archeology in its most extreme form, framed by the wish not only for discovery, but for resurrection.
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The void that fills the voidThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Relics, and the places devoted to their worship, dotted the map of Europe and the Middle East. Saints, like today’s celebrities, were both omnipresent and faraway, once-vulnerable people who became something more than human.
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Cretan Europa’s second comingThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Citizen’s day in Fiesole, December 2021. In the EU, Christian Europe stands in quantum superposition, both here and not here. Can Cretan Europa help us imagine better futures?