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  • My untranslatable name

    My untranslatable nameThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.

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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

  • Mapping starvation

    Mapping starvation

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    On 21 August, Forensic Architecture, a London-based agency that investigates acts of state violence and lawlessness worldwide, released its latest project: « The Architecture of Genocidal Starvation in Gaza ».…

  • Double negative

    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. »

  • The shortest, longest bus trip

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    Travelogue of a day in Minsk & an eternity at the EU border.

  • How to abandon an archive

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

  • Texting with … William Shoki

    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.

  • Texting with … Kamil Ahsan

    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…

  • 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

    « Tham dii day dii » – Thai farmworkers in IsraelThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.

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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 ».