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  • Texting with … William Shoki

    Texting with … William Shoki

    William Shoki is a South Africa-based writer, and editor of the online intellectual platform Africa Is a Country.

  • Texting with … Kamil Ahsan

    Texting with … Kamil Ahsan

    With Kamil Ahsan the ERB’s Sander Pleij texted about editing a editing international yet regional magazines…

  • 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.»

  • 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.»

  • « 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

  • The Three Body Solution

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    The Chinese Communist Party embraces the sci-fi hit The Three Body Problem.

  • 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 ».

  • 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).

  • The anarcho-astrologer

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    Javier Milei, literarily considered

  • 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.

  • Jesus in the pines

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    Refugees and border guards in the Białowieża Forest. Scenes of violence play out behind a thick cover of trees, in a remote corner of Poland.

  • The big beige books

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    The most important unreviewed books of our times, reviewed. On Xi Jinping’s The Governance of China, Volumes I to IV