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Travel

  • The sea between

    The sea between

    « In order to survive amidst this bleak existence, the Mediterranean people established two distinct strategies: hopelessness or salvation. Some embraced hopelessness as the best way to approach the absurd condition of human life. »

  • 20 years of EUROPEANS

    20 years of EUROPEANS

    Forty countries, fifteen thousand photographs

  • Double negative

    Double negative

    Our first piece from Issue Eight, out from behind the paywall! « It’s best to go into Schengen’s history unshocked by contradiction. »

  • The shortest, longest bus trip

    The shortest, longest bus tripThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.

    Travelogue of a day in Minsk & an eternity at the EU border.

  • There was once a woman who

    There was once a woman who

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

  • No longer at home

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    A review of Hangman: A Novel by Maya Binyam. «Returning home rests … as the thematic cornerstone of African and African-diasporic literature.»

  • Of wild men and horses

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

  • Miracle & yonder

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    Paul Simon’s Graceland & country music’s global history. «The idea of anti-apartheid country music is counter-intuitive but profound.»

  • Moscow on the Med

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    Two winters in Istanbul. If you are a holder of a Russian passport, there are few places in the Western hemisphere that you can go without a visa.

  • Jesus in the pines

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    Refugees and border guards in the Białowieża Forest. Scenes of violence play out behind a thick cover of trees, in a remote corner of Poland.

  • Hitchhiker

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

  • Every end has a start

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    In 2005, Yamandú Roos embarked on the photographic project Europeans: one continent, forty countries, 65.000 kilometers.