Around the World

"For a long time now I haven't been I."

— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

Time and Agency: Alternate History Fictions
Keren Omry reviews “Sideways in Time: Critical Essays on Alternate History Fiction.”
Keren OmryJun 13, 2020
Concrete Metaphysics and the Visual Image
Christoph Schneider reviews Clemena Antonova's "Visual Thought in Russian Religious Philosophy."
Christoph SchneiderJun 13, 2020
Conflict Twists
Ellen Elias-Bursac, who lived in Yugoslavia in the 1970 and ’80s, examines three moments that capture the slipperiness of the feelings aroused by conflict.
Ellen Elias-BursacJun 12, 2020
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- Politics
Who Killed American Global Power?
Is Trump breaking the liberal international order or were other forces already at work?
Erik D’AmatoJun 11, 2020
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- Politics
Thriving in Isolation and Beyond: The Empowering Poetry of Vasyl Stus
The work of Ukrainian poet Vasyl Stus, who spent over a decade in Soviet prisons, is newly relevant in our time of self-isolation.
Bohdan TokarskyJun 9, 2020
The Stations of Life: On “We Are Pilgrims: Journeys in Search of Ourselves”
A book on global pilgrimages is tone-deaf about theology but still wide-ranging and useful.
Tanjil RashidJun 7, 2020
Landfill Fodder: On Adam Minter’s “Secondhand: Travels in the New Global Garage Sale”
How used consumer goods are becoming a worldwide environmental problem.
Susan CunninghamJun 4, 2020
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- Nonfiction
What Do They Know of English, Who Only English Know? On Gaston Dorren’s “Lingo: Around Europe in Sixty Languages” and “Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages”
Colin Marshall explores the allure of polyglotism and the perils of linguistic hegemony through “Lingo” and “Babel” by Gaston Dorren.
Colin MarshallJun 3, 2020
Thou Shalt Show: On Robert Alter’s Translation of the Hebrew Bible
Tal Goldfajn pores over “The Hebrew Bible: A Translation with Commentary” by Robert Alter.
Tal GoldfajnJun 2, 2020
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- Religion
The Politics of Pop: The Rise and Repression of Uyghur Music in China
The pop lives of the Uyghur minority in China
Elise AndersonMay 31, 2020
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The Mother of African Cinema: Sarah Maldoror
Remembering Sarah Maldoror, mother of African cinema.
Celluloid Liberation FrontMay 31, 2020
When Israel Was Socialist
A memoir from Rachel Biale raises unanswered questions about Israel.
Charles DunstMay 30, 2020

Around the World

"For a long time now I haven't been I."— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

"For a long time now I haven't been I."

— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet