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Letters from the Heart
Simone de Beauvoir’s advice to the lovelorn.
Around the World
"For a long time now I haven't been I."
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
Collective Witnessing
Syrian prison literature testifies to the atrocities of the Assad regime.
The Reluctant Bomb Technicians of Sinjar
After ISIS ravaged their homeland, a group of Yazidis found work removing explosives from their own villages.
Magda Cârneci: A Romanian Lispector
Alta Ifland reviews the recently published book by Magda Cârneci, “FEM,” translated by Sean Cotter.
French Secularism, Reinvented
What can France’s history with Catholicism tell us about today’s culture wars over Islam?
Toeing the Trap
Hannah Kofman reckons with “The Copenhagen Trilogy,” the recently translated memoir by Tove Ditlevsen.
The Collaborative Skein: Searching for a Way Forward in Polish-Jewish Relations, a Conversation
Louise Steinman and Piotr Florczyk offer a wide-ranging and provocative discussion of the legacy of the Holocaust in Poland.
The Beijing Heidegger Reading Group
Coby Goldberg on his time with the Beijing Heidegger Reading Group.
The Eternal Huizinga
A new translation of an enduring classic of late-medieval scholarship.
Pointing Out the Elephant: On Sean Griffin’s “The Liturgical Past in Byzantium and Early Rus”
Simon Franklin praises “The Liturgical Past in Byzantium and Early Rus” by Sean Griffin.
“Holy Shit, The Earth Is Fucked!”: On Inio Asano’s Manga
Inio Asano’s anime is rife with images of apocalypse longed for but deferred.
Dispatches from an Unoccupied Future: Reflections on the Palestine Writes Festival
Attendees, participants, and organizers joined together to weave ourselves toward wholeness and repair.
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