Literature
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Needle & penThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Jane Austen valued fashion as an intrinsic part of one’s character — whether in her own life or in a novel.
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The Mothers GrimmThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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What ties Gretel to her witch? Louise Glück’s poem Gretel in Darkness provides answers.
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The anarcho-astrologerThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Javier Milei, literarily considered
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The size of longingThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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On Jacob Israël de Haan’s Palestine and Arnold Zweig’s novel of post‑Zionist disillusionment
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Last resortThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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On Dora Kellner, Walter Benjamin and the biography of a hotel
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Ice queens, sex machinesThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Insofar as erotica can ever be about something, what is Russia-themed erotica about?
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CannibalinguisticsThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Language-learning and people-eating in Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi’s The Centre.
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What an animal isn’tThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Two vastly different books — one a picaresque tale, the other a dystopian meditation — both recount a transition from human to animal or from animal to human.
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« Everything starts with fire » — Interview with Hélène CixousThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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« The smell was like the sharp notes of a trumpet, a sort of rat-tat-tat like a burst of gunfire, a bombardment. »
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From the knacker’s yardThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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On the fallen animals loved by Heinrich von Kleist & Curzio Malaparte.
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Two palindromesThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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→ Setting of the Sun at West Mountain / Puffing & panting ←→ Worm-eaten Rimbaud / Always knowing whom ←
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Forget your darlingsThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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On memory palaces, medieval and modern. A medieval woman’s life would not have taken the form of a straight line.