Politics
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Independence and/or DeathThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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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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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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Moscow on the MedThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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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.
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Jesus in the pinesThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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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.
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The big beige booksThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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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
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SchwarzeneggerologyThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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On Arnold, action cinema & Übermenschlichkeit. « Arnold Schwarzenegger was action cinema’s Adamic man, alternately entering and exiting normal human time. »
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An axe to grind should make you sharperThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Forensic Architecture charts state-organized crimes, genocide and other disasters in three dimensions. « Flat maps can’t convey the politics of water and shit. »
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Tragedy & farce in climate commentary
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« We are fucked » vs. « It’s not too late ». The Club of Rome’s Earth for All offers a burst of stubborn optimism. But when does stubborn optimism become cruel optimism?
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No man’s landThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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On Edda Mussolini & fashionable fascism. Can a woman be dangerous yet powerless?
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Flags & bonesThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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On Curzio Malaparte’s Europe — and ours. The midcentury novelist read anew, on war’s aftermath and transatlantic romance. What was, or is, « postwar Europe », anyway?
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Planes, tanks & automobilesThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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You could tell the US army had arrived because the local garages had sold out of whiskey. Old maps, new wars & vanishing memories along the Polish-Ukrainian border.
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Optimize this headline for Google*This article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Google’s rise to dominance can seem inevitable, and its power over publishers monolithic. Yet Google’s wanton disruption of publishing resembles evolution more than intelligent design. Journalists, publishers, regulators, and scholars…