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  • 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. »

  • Babushka Z Cosplay

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    A Ukrainian great-grandmother inadvertently becomes a pro-Russian icon.

  • There was once a woman who

    There was once a woman who

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

  • Let’s enjoy the moon

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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).

  • 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.

  • « Tham dii day dii » – Thai farmworkers in Israel

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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

  • Corrupted, yet intact

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    On the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Europe of European integration.

  • 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 Silence Shared

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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. »

  • The Archipelago Conversations, an excerpt — Interview with Édouard Glissant

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    An excerpt from The Archipelago Conversations with the late French Carribean philosopher and poet. « The archipelagos of the Mediterranean must encounter the archipelagos of Asia, and the archipelago of the Antilles. »

  • The Ogre, the Monk and the Maiden

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    A story about quarks and antiquarks, beauty quarks and strangelets, gluons, muons, prions, hadrons and charms.

  • An Unlucky Man

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    « He rolled down the window, went back to honking the horn, and started waving my underpants out the window. »