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19th Century

Leipzigzag

Leipzigzag

Lakota Power

Lakota Power

Farah Abdessamad on François-René de Chateaubriand

Farah Abdessamad on François-René de Chateaubriand

Spectacle’s Spectacle

Spectacle’s Spectacle

The Terror and Transitional Justice in the Twentieth Century

The Terror and Transitional Justice in the Twentieth Century

7 Seascapes by Paul Signac

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7 Seascapes by Paul Signac

Liberia, Mexico and Racial Republicanism

Liberia, Mexico and Racial Republicanism

9 Photographs by William Henry Fox Talbot

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9 Photographs by William Henry Fox Talbot

How to Write a Berfrois Post

How to Write a Berfrois Post

Patrick Bray on Michel Houellebecq

Patrick Bray on Michel Houellebecq

Calvin Schermerhorn: Family and Freedom

Calvin Schermerhorn: Family and Freedom

A Staring Back

Poisonings, bludgeonings, suffocations

Present Perfect

Present Perfect

‘In vast, impoverished cities like Bombay, Cairo, Jakarta, Rio, or Lagos, the plot lines of the nineteenth century proliferate. Not ignorant mass suffering, but the ordeal of sentient individuals who are daily exposed to a world of possibilities through a sheet of glass-satellite TV, the Internet-that keeps them out.’

‘Victor Hugo, it turns out, was as orientalist as his compatriots.’

Lautréamont’s recipe for “toxic emanations” still as pungent as ever