If you look closely at the map of the world, you’ll find unrecognized states, micronations and curious border zones. These places exist in a kind of limbo, in the shadows of international relations. De Facto, a project by Jorie Horsthuis and Floor Koomen, explores these realms.
Notes from Bar Tawil (unclaimed), Transnistria (claimed), and Nutopia (unclaimable).
On Natalia Ginzburg’s Valentino, newly translated: a Q&A with Alexander Chee.
From the office of the future to the office of the past. What endures?
An iron curtain makes a powerful canvas. Images from Sven Johne & Falk Haberkorn’s Aus Sicht des Archivs, documenting life in the former East Germany in the 1990s.