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Curing my lying
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An excerpt from the novel Attention-Seeking Behaviour (Peninsula Press, 2026) by Aea Varfis-van Warmelo. « My being able to talk was most of the problem in the first place. »
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The pain-laden rhyme
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An excerpt from a new biography on the life and poetry of Paul Celan.
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A story of flesh
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Excerpt from All Flesh (Pushkin Press, 2026), translated from the French by Jeffrey Zuckerman.
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A Madman’s TaleThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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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. »
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Babushka Z CosplayThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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A Ukrainian great-grandmother inadvertently becomes a pro-Russian icon.
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There was once a woman who
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A surprisingly rhyming excerpt from Inger Christensen’s novella « Natalja’s Stories ».
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Let’s enjoy the moonThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Eight young women live in a college run by nuns in Rome; an excerpt from Alba de Céspedes’ There’s No Turning Back (Nessuno Torna Indietro).
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The body in the crushed rosesThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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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.
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« Tham dii day dii » – Thai farmworkers in IsraelThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Modern Zionism’s founding ideology, in which diaspora Jews would be redeemed by working the soil, has long ceded to neoliberalism’s imperatives
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Corrupted, yet intactThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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On the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Europe of European integration.
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WHOOOOThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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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…
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A Silence SharedThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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« If a story just like that one — dying babies, divine retribution — had come back to me from childhood memories, it would have seemed fantastical, unreal. »