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10 Questions for Lisa Schantl

July 30, 2024 - By Franchesca Viaud

“hello”

i say to my reflection.
at the level of spittelau i see it. my reflection.
recognize it, but not myself in it.

these are days on which i believe i’ve forgotten how to walk.

on the way back from heiligenstadt i put one foot in front of the
other, but it feels so ridiculous that i stop every few meters to watch
other people taking their steps.
—translated from Maë Schwinghammer's "Hello," Volume 65, Issue 1 (Spring 2024)

Tell us about one of the first pieces you translated.
I remember that it was a gray and heavy winter day, packed with dust and gloom and the occasional flickering streetlamp, and I had the shared student apartment to myself. A few...

#BeingRevolutionary

July 26, 2024 - By Jim Hicks

On February 25, 2024, Aaron Bushnell, a member of the US Air Force, set himself on fire in front of the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C. to protest the U.S. committing genocide in Gaza. A recent essay by Nan Levinson in TomDispatch examines the media reaction to this extreme act, with a focus on how quickly the press discussion swerved away from the political justification that Bushnell himself offered towards amateur psychoanalysis and a focus on the airman’s upbringing. (Masha Gessen, per usual, offered an important corrective to this particular media bandwagon.)

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Douglas Dunn in Italy: Dance, Dancer, and Spectator

July 25, 2024 - By Aline Nari, Translated by Joan Benham

10 Questions for Katherine Vondy

July 22, 2024 - By Franchesca Viaud

At first just one or two people watched the bears. Then they shared the bears with some of their friends and the friends started watching the bears. The friends told other friends who told other friends, and friendly acquaintances, and even strangers. These people told other people. After a while, everybody was watching the bears.

The bears were not really there. Or actually they were, but only if “there” was Alaska. Not the city where all the bear-watching was happening, which was many of thousands of miles away. The people in the faraway city watched the bears via a webcam that live-streamed a salmon-filled river 24/7. Because there were so many salmon, there were also bears. The bears feasted on the salmon.
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Despite the Storm, Sikander’s Witness Stands Tall

July 19, 2024 - By Amal Zaman

“What's the problem of women? Knowledge! What's the problem of women? Their head, that's why they want to cut their head.”
—Nawal El Saadawi

In the early morning of July 8, as Hurricane Beryl cast the coast of Texas in darkness and disarray, a statue was beheaded on the University of Houston campus. This statue—a feminine figure commissioned from globally renowned artist Shahzia Sikander—had become the focal point of a campaign by the Christian anti-abortion group Texas Right to Life. In February 2024, this group, long active in the...