Issue Four
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The case of the missing elephant
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On animal charisma and animal vengeance. What happens when an elephant goes missing a year after her death.
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The original Dybbuk
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A story about afterlife. « A saint! What do you mean he’s a saint! the scholar says. He’s a librarian! Are librarians saints? »
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The big beige books
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The most important unreviewed books of our times, reviewed. On Xi Jinping’s The Governance of China, Volumes I to IV
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Trouble at work and home while my son is abroad
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A story about living. « I have a family and I have a job and I have a teaching gig, and these things have me. »
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Bad writing advice
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Writing advice is everywhere. Some of it might even be good! But we were interested in the bad.
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Europe disenchanted
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A broad cast of characters who almost all speak to a solitary woe. This is Europe?
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Forget your darlings
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On memory palaces, medieval and modern. A medieval woman’s life would not have taken the form of a straight line.
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Visit the extractocene!
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The Eisenthür silver mine is real; the village below is entirely fictive.
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Streuselkuchen
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Eine Geschichte über Coolness. « Das Telefon klingelt. Jim Jarmusch ist dran und fragt, ob ich nicht bei ihm vorbeikommen will. »