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The Gorgeous Inertia of the Earth: Visions of life’s geometry

In Adrian Duncan's latest, a statue-repairer moves to Italy in a novel that explores the spatial reasoning […]

Column

In search of “Brodernism”: Where is this maximalist cult of difficulty?

It's possible to read literature in translation and not fetishise it – we do it all the time.

Editor's column

Blurb your enthusiasm: The case for abolishing the book blurb

"Some of the worst-written pieces of English on the planet". Our resident book critic wants the book […]

Interview

Cabinet: 25 Years of art, ideas and “un-nostalgic” publishing

We sat down with Cabinet's Sina Najafi and Hunter Dukes to delve into the magazine's Berlin relocation, […]

Interview

Moshtari Hilal is unpacking our obsession with ugliness

Author Moshtari Hilal’s newly translated work 'Ugliness' is a meditation on what the world finds unattractive, and […]

Review

In the Forest of the Metropoles: Mapping Europe’s margins

Karl-Markus Gauß embarks on a tour of Europe's overlooked corners, taking in forgotten poets, hidden histories, and […]

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