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Stieg Larsson and the evisceration of the social democratic dream in Swedish crime fantasy

Tricky Dick’s infamous campaign against The Pink Lady

Gunter Grass’s diary entry, October 3rd, 1990: “It was right to spit on their jolly unification parade”

Witch City chowder mug, “Greetings from Guantanamo Bay” postcards, DDR t-shirt: how souvenirs reshape history

‘…the money spent on climate debt would fuel a global environmental transformation essential to saving the entire planet’

Lingering smoke of the bra burning myth

Robert Frank’s ‘The Americans’

Roosevelt knew ‘a lot about race theory but less about international diplomacy and almost nothing about Asia’

Mumbai’s 60 hours of terror: ‘One word he could understand was “grenade,” which was repeated several times’

Tehran’s prison for the breaking of souls

Martin Amis on Nabokov’s ‘novel in fragments’

Economist beaten black and/or blue over proposed climate change geo-engineering solutions responds: ‘And if it doesn’t work? We just take it down with no repercussions’

‘With The Humbling, the scope of the novel has shrunk to accommodate a subject who is stunned nearly silent by his loss.’

Your print out and keep Going Rouge index

Your second print out and keep Going Rouge index

Bank for International Settlements paper: Why the ‘doom loop’ requires a ‘financial sector reform effort every bit as radical as followed the Great Depression

Orwell’s Cuppa

The tea should be strong. For a pot holding a quart, if you are going to fill it nearly to the brim, six heaped teaspoons would be about right...

The thing about new blooms is that they tend to bleed— / Those petals birthed / hugging close / that come warmer weather are tricked into jumping away...

‘from An Explanation of America: Countries and Explanations’ by Robert Pinsky

Farah Abdessamad on François-René de Chateaubriand

I spent a good part of my childhood at home staring outside my bedroom window, following the trail of planes approaching the nearby Paris airport in the sky from my banlieue. I envied the passengers...

The tea should be strong. For a pot holding a quart, if you are going to fill it nearly to the brim, six heaped teaspoons would be about right...

The thing about new blooms is that they tend to bleed— / Those petals birthed / hugging close / that come warmer weather are tricked into jumping away...

Goodbye, Hello

Seven years spent travelling with the Roma, in photographs

Stieg Larsson and the evisceration of the social democratic dream in Swedish crime fantasy

Tricky Dick’s infamous campaign against The Pink Lady

Gunter Grass’s diary entry, October 3rd, 1990: “It was right to spit on their jolly unification parade”

Witch City chowder mug, “Greetings from Guantanamo Bay” postcards, DDR t-shirt: how souvenirs reshape history

‘…the money spent on climate debt would fuel a global environmental transformation essential to saving the entire planet’

Lingering smoke of the bra burning myth

Robert Frank’s ‘The Americans’

Rallying the neurosceptics

Roosevelt knew ‘a lot about race theory but less about international diplomacy and almost nothing about Asia’

Mumbai’s 60 hours of terror: ‘One word he could understand was “grenade,” which was repeated several times’

Tehran’s prison for the breaking of souls

Martin Amis on Nabokov’s ‘novel in fragments’

Economist beaten black and/or blue over proposed climate change geo-engineering solutions responds: ‘And if it doesn’t work? We just take it down with no repercussions’

‘With The Humbling, the scope of the novel has shrunk to accommodate a subject who is stunned nearly silent by his loss.’

Your print out and keep Going Rouge index

Your second print out and keep Going Rouge index

Stalin the TV hero

Herta Muller On Packing

Bank for International Settlements paper: Why the ‘doom loop’ requires a ‘financial sector reform effort every bit as radical as followed the Great Depression

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