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Glory to the railsThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Millions of Ukrainians left the country during the first weeks of the invasion; four million were evacuated by train, including a million children. Thousands of dogs, cats and other pets,…
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Texting with … Ece Temelkuran (2)This article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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« We are not aware of how defeated we are as intellectuals. »
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Queen of the nightThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Maria Theresa, Habsburg empress, created the modern European state. To ponder her reign is to ask what the Enlightenment was — and is. Be careful with your nostalgias.
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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
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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 ».…
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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 tripThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Travelogue of a day in Minsk & an eternity at the EU border.
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How to abandon an archiveThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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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 homeThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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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 EuropeThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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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.»