Politics
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Double negative
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Our first piece from Issue Eight, out from behind the paywall! « It’s best to go into Schengen’s history unshocked by contradiction. »
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The shortest, longest bus trip
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Travelogue of a day in Minsk & an eternity at the EU border.
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How to abandon an archive
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When an authoritarian regime collapses, what happens to the archives of its secret police?
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Texting with … William Shoki
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William Shoki is a South Africa-based writer, and editor of the online intellectual platform Africa Is a Country.
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Texting with … Kamil Ahsan
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With Kamil Ahsan the ERB’s Sander Pleij texted about editing a editing international yet regional magazines…
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No longer at home
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A review of Hangman: A Novel by Maya Binyam. «Returning home rests … as the thematic cornerstone of African and African-diasporic literature.»
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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.»
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« 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
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The Three Body Solution
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The Chinese Communist Party embraces the sci-fi hit The Three Body Problem.
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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 ».
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Independence and/or Death
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Brazilian artist Jaime Lauriano recreated the iconic painting Independence or Death (1822). A scorched earth remains in his own Independence and Death (2022).
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