War
The body in the crushed roses
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Excerpt from Sergei Lebedev’s new novel The Lady of the Mine (2025), set near a Ukrainian coal mine that buries atrocities from the past.
A worm’s-eye view of Gaza
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An interview with Forensic Architecture’s founder Eyal Weizman. « Overground Gaza becomes de negative shape – the reflection – of Underground Gaza. »
« We are the winners of Eurovision »
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Lithuania has lost the Eurovision Song Contest thirty times.
The size of longing
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On Jacob Israël de Haan’s Palestine and Arnold Zweig’s novel of post‑Zionist disillusionment
Europe disenchanted
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A broad cast of characters who almost all speak to a solitary woe. This is Europe?
Corrupted, yet intact
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On the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Europe of European integration.
An axe to grind should make you sharper
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Forensic Architecture charts state-organized crimes, genocide and other disasters in three dimensions. « Flat maps can’t convey the politics of water and shit. »
The pulverization of memory
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Write your memoir in a hostile tongue. On Marina Jarre, from Latvia to Italy and back.
The invention of austerity
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Dramatic economic inflations have punctuated twentieth-century political history. Is austerity a class strategy?
