Issue One
JUNE 2022
Our first print issue, sprawling by design. Essays spanning the archaeological and the astronautical. Reviews of old books in new translation, and reviews of new books in non-translation. Plus fiction, poetry, anecdote, remembrance, collage, photography, and questions-not-so-frequently-asked.
« When I was silent… » — Interview with Sulaiman Addonia
Stop! I am doing what they all do: presenting writer Sulaiman Addonia as one-who-has-suffered, because…
Into the muck
Time? For? Socialism? What happened when Thomas Piketty descended from the elegant mathematical Olympus of…
All is not vanity
Lose, delete, restore. What to remember when everything is always, forever, in a digital now?
To see a city
« What if all fictional characters from novels continue to dwell somewhere, just like the dead? »…
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Google’s rise to dominance can seem inevitable, and its power over publishers monolithic. Yet Google’s…
On paths not taken
« Genocide Studies » is a house with many rooms. It accommodates and even encourages…