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Trains

  • A Madman’s Tale

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

  • Glory to the rails

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    Millions of Ukrainians left the country during the first weeks of the invasion; four million were evacuated by train, including a million children. Thousands of dogs, cats and other pets, too.

  • There was once a woman who

    There was once a woman who

    A surprisingly rhyming excerpt from Inger Christensen’s novella « Natalja’s Stories ».

  • The original Dybbuk

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    A story about afterlife. « A saint! What do you mean he’s a saint! the scholar says. He’s a librarian! Are librarians saints? »

  • On location

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

  • How to people a landscape

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    On Cyril Schäublin’s Unrueh (2022), cinema & scale. « No other film has so resized me. »

  • WHOOOO

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    A story about a lonely railway guard on a desolate steppe. « In the cursed August of 1991 the radio informed Kasatonov that there was a state of emergency in the capital. Then it fell silent, as if the receiver had broken. »

  • A breast is a breast is a breast

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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.

  • Curtain call

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    An iron curtain makes a powerful canvas. Images from Sven Johne & Falk Haberkorn’s Aus Sicht des Archivs, documenting life in the former East Germany in the 1990s.

  • A messy optical process

    A messy optical process

    On orthodoxies & heresies of typography. To serif, or sans-serif?

  • Stupid illnesses called « childhood »

    Stupid illnesses called « childhood »

    An excerpt from I padri lontani / Distant Fathers (1987), the rediscovered memoir of Marina Jarre, available in English translation from New Vessel Press.