Books
Headline
Thomas Mann’s Overcoat: Surreal, speculative, bizarre
Ugly coats, invisible elephants and giant monuments having sex with the clouds: Istvan Vörös' new novel manages […]
Book review
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 […]
