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The pulverization of memoryThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Write your memoir in a hostile tongue. On Marina Jarre, from Latvia to Italy and back.
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An archeology of the airThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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On Havelok the Dane, medieval air & the world’s largest wind farm
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The invention of austerityThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Dramatic economic inflations have punctuated twentieth-century political history. Is austerity a class strategy?
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No man’s landThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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On Edda Mussolini & fashionable fascism. Can a woman be dangerous yet powerless?
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The inborn germThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Why death? Who or what dies? Philosophers tend not to explain, but to justify. When do such questions become biological questions? Does it help?
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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 the capital. Then it fell silent, as if the receiver had broken. »
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When the world makes rags of usThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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He spoke of painting like a starving man speaks of food. On Józef Czapski, Memories of Starobielsk and the art of observation.
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Gerard Croiset & the adventure of the psychic detectiveThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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The clairvoyant Dutch grocer who charted the frontiers of parapsychology and lent a hand to the FBI. « Unbelievable but true! »
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Skinned aliveThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Imagine your therapist assigned you to write your autobiography, after which you decided you were cured, so your therapist published it as revenge. Zeno’s Conscience turns 99.
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The room I am inThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Tight pants. Fashionable coats. Music. Defiant looks. On the last men & women who passed through the Bulgarian gulag.
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Glossomania-maniaThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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On language invention. To desire some other perfect language is at once to acknowledge and to overlook the miraculousness of what we have.
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BorderlandThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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The great storm surge is coming, it has always been coming in the borderland between Denmark and Germany. Here, Danish writer Dorthe Nors visits the Frisian Wadden Sea island of Sylt, as part of her travels along the North Sea coast.