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  • My untranslatable name

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    When my parents went to register my name after I was born, they carried out an especially elaborate plan. They acquired a chocolate bar

  • After midnight

    After midnight

    The modern world races forward with all its technological might, yet remains trapped in a reactive cycle of disasters. Necessary responses follow catastrophes rather than prevent them.

  • The Palestinian seafront of the future — Joséphine Baker in Haifa

    The Palestinian seafront of the future — Joséphine Baker in HaifaThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.

    Long ago, on the coast of Palestine, an elegant Modernist casino was frequented by Muslims, Christians, and Jews. One night in 1943 Joséphine Baker performed.

  • Tree illness as metaphor

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    What do we tell ourselves when all the trees simply vanish?

  • 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. »

  • How to abandon an archive

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    When an authoritarian regime collapses, what happens to the archives of its secret police?

  • 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.

  • Letters from Persepolis

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    On the ruined city’s pilgrims & decoders

  • Down the mine shaft

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    A new book challenges the myth of photography’s immateriality.