It is December. People bake, putting goods into ovens. Quiet sweetness is placed on tables…
Read MoreNietzsche – who had studied classical philology at the University of Leipzig – once argued that the Germans were becoming overwhelmed with the sheer volume of antiquarian knowledge…
Read MoreDid Marinetti’s visit to Argentina contribute to the spread of Fascism?
Read MoreTexts of Greek and Roman literature do not usually come down to us in lavishly illustrated editions dating back to what we term classical antiquity…
Read MoreAt the sites chosen for the groundnut scheme, tractors and bulldozers from military surplus stores in Egypt proved unable to tackle the hard ground and tough vegetation, so the planners turned to a novel solution: repurposing surplus Sherman M4A2 tanks…
Read MoreGermany is shortly to hold its first ever federal election in which the sitting chancellor is not running…
Read MoreThat thing? It’s just a monster living in Microsoft’s basement. And it’s wearing someone’s face…
Read MoreTo say that the apocalypse is both utopian and dystopian is neither left nor right but baldly realist; it is to prolong the ultimate decision into all eternity…
Read MorePolitical indoctrination became an important strategy alongside moral instruction…
Read MoreOn the first of July, artists, curators, and art afficionados gathered at the gates of the Sharra landfill of Tirana to attend the inauguration of a public artwork by Kosovar artist Sislej Xhafa…
Read MoreThe intention is to leave a trace of my personal experience of the pandemic as it has affected our shared lives in several European cities…
Read MoreHow do we enter into the ritual time outside of time in which narrative unfolds?
Read MoreHave they clocked our nocturnal ways that bite at kleptomaniac clockhands in our capitals?
Read MoreThis essay considers some reasons for lyric’s return in black British poetics by first taking a broad look at the field, and then by attending to the work of several poets writing since the 1990s but publishing most visibly since the millennium…
Read MoreWas Walter Benjamin correct in suggesting a relationship between art and fascism?
Read MoreAlthough it continued to live on in the memories of its former victims or enemies, in Japan itself memories of empire were excised from the public imagination through selective commemoration and emphasis on the victimhood of ordinary people…
Read MoreCarolyn Kizer, feminist poet and founding editor of Poetry Northwest, became the first Program Director for Literature at the National Endowment for the Arts in 1966…
Read MoreThe only inconvenience is, that none of these projects are yet brought to perfection; and in the mean time, the whole country lies miserably waste, the houses in ruins, and the people without food or clothes…
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