History
The underbelly of Krochmalna Street
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Why aren’t Isaac Bashevis Singer’s gangster novels published in English?
Sick men of Europe
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King Leopold & Sultan Abdülhamid — a tale of two monarchs. «I’ve come to see them as twins of a kind: monarchs in bourgeois garb.»
The business of men
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On pregnancy’s bloody histories & its visceral fictions. A review of Trudy Dehue’s brilliant history of pregnancy research, « Egg, Fetus, Baby ».
Interjections
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Non-words for the remembered & unremembered violence of Bulgarian labor camps.
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. »
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.
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.
The size of longing
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On Jacob Israël de Haan’s Palestine and Arnold Zweig’s novel of post‑Zionist disillusionment
The case of the missing elephant
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On animal charisma and animal vengeance. What happens when an elephant goes missing a year after her death.