On animal charisma and animal vengeance. What happens when an elephant goes missing a year Cro-Magnon: The Story of the Last Ice Age People of Europe Access to the full library from €4.16 per month. « When I was silent… » « Less is more »? The scale and shape of his body gave the architect Mies van der Rohe an unequaled weight and architectural authority. On unrecognized states, micronations and curious border zones. On Edda Mussolini & fashionable fascism. Can a woman be dangerous yet powerless? Sandrine Dixson-Declève, Owen Gaffney, Jayati Ghosh, Jørgen Randers, Johan Rockström ..read more

and Eurocentric stunts, from Hollywood to Hong Kong. What does an action movie want to be? Access to the full library from €4.16 per month. Stop! I am doing what they all do: presenting writer Sulaiman Addonia as one-who-has-suffered, because he grew up as a refugee. It is a problem of genre. Suffering has become an interviewer’s crutch. « Less is more »? The scale and shape of his body gave the architect Mies van der Rohe an unequaled weight and architectural authority. An axe to grind should make you sharper Forensic Architecture charts state-organized crimes, genoci ..read more

Or, the art of the error Edda Mussolini: The Most Dangerous Woman in Europe Write your memoir in a hostile tongue. On Marina Jarre, from Latvia to Italy and back. Stop! I am doing what they all do: presenting writer Sulaiman Addonia as one-who-has-suffered, because he grew up as a refugee. It is a problem of genre. Suffering has become an interviewer’s crutch. On artificial intelligence, murderous elephants & Elizabeth Bishop An axe to grind should make you sharper On Edda Mussolini & fashionable fascism. Can a woman be dangerous yet powerless? The task is to hold your attention for mo ..read more

« If a story just like that one — dying babies, divine retribution — had come back to me from childhood memories, it would have seemed fantastical, unreal. » . Plus paranormal detectives and Chinese palindromes (read it twice!). On pregnant silences, and how to abort them — via Jane Austen’s and our own manners & morals. Being alone in a new city over the holidays was wonderful and, as it happened, not to be repeated. Imagine your therapist assigned you to write your autobiography, after which you decided you were cured, so your therapist published it as revenge. A ..read more

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« When I was silent… » « If a story just like that one — dying babies, divine retribution — had come back to me from childhood memories, it would have seemed fantastical, unreal. » . Plus paranormal detectives and Chinese palindromes (read it twice!). On pregnant silences, and how to abort them — via Jane Austen’s and our own manners & morals. → → Pursuing / you lead me to come to the future. On two tales of racial metamorphosis, salted or sugared, one hundred years apart. He spoke of painting like a starving man speaks of food. On Józef Czapski, Access t ..read more

The clairvoyant Dutch grocer who charted the frontiers of parapsychology and lent a hand to the FBI. « Unbelievable but true! » 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? From the office of the future to the office of the past. What endures? 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. Tight pants. Fashionable coats ..read more

A story about quarks and antiquarks, beauty quarks and strangelets, gluons, muons, prions, hadrons and charms. The Ogre, the Monk and the Maiden When spring came to Bucha « I like my tyrants like I like my heroes. That is, crushed by a giant chandelier. » Stop! I am doing what they all do: presenting writer Sulaiman Addonia as one-who-has-suffered, because he grew up as a refugee. The problem is, in part, a problem of genre. Suffering has become an interviewer’s crutch. Who will speak European? A puzzle How to write; or, how to insult « I guess it all began, » he said, «&nb ..read more

How Americans edit sex out of my writing What is editing? Two people who both lead a literary life—an augmented reality where the connections between existence and sentences are investigated daily—wage sensual war for the soul of the page. On orthodoxies & heresies of typography. To serif, or sans-serif? A letter to George Orwell. « All narrative is hypnotic. Some narratives are more hypnotic than others. Because of you, we can be conscious of the kinds and the workings of the narratives that set out to deaden us, lessen us, make us lie, make us part of the lie. » A short story a ..read more

The great storm surge is coming, it has always been coming in the borderland between Denmark and Germany. Here, Danish writer Dorthe Nors visits the Frisian island of Sylt, which lost its connection to the mainland in 1362 when it became a thin isle in the Wadden Sea during a flood known as the « Great Drowning of Men ». The book is forthcoming from , in which Nors chronicles her year traveling up and down the coast's « storm-battered trees and wind-blasted beaches », exploring its history, geography and her own relationship to this wild landscape. How to write; or, how to ..read more