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ISSUE 69

Early twentieth-century door panels by Yoruba artist Olówè of Isè from the palace of the Ogoga (king) of Ikere in present-day Nigeria. The Ogoga sits in a throne across from a white man, who is being carried in a hammock.

Looking Back at the White Man

James G. Harper and Philip W. Scher

The story of Julius Lips READ MORE

ISSUE 69

Photograph of the interior of The Heidelberg Karzer, active until nineteen fourteen.

Academic Discipline

Reed McConnell

A history of prisons and privilege at German universities READ MORE

ISSUE 68

Photograph of the painted head of a bishop, one of more than four hundred and fifty pieces of broken sculpture found inside the walls of Saint Cuthbert’s Church in Wells, Somerset, in eighteen forty-eight. Destroyed by iconoclasts in the sixteenth century and then plastered into the church walls, the sculptural elements were recovered during the course of a renovation.

Dolls and Idols

Joe Moshenska

The iconoclasm of child’s play READ MORE

ISSUE 69

Photograph of flameholder.

Inventory / Flameholders

Jim Moske

Art and engineering in the early jet age READ MORE

BOOKS

Book cover reading Permitting Art: Visual Arts and the First Amendment on the Streets of New York

Permitting Art

by Brian Soucek READ MORE

BOOKS

One for the Ages: The World of Matt Freedman

ISSUE 69

Photograph of an olive tree.

Artist Project / Anchor and Archive

Adam Broomberg and Rafael Gonzalez

The uprooting of Palestinian olive trees READ MORE

KIOSK / 29 AUGUST 2024

Photograph of Alexandre Kojève in Japan, date unknown. He sits at a desk with an owl on his shoulder.

Kojève & Cigarettes

Hunter Dukes

Fact-checking American Geist READ MORE

ISSUE 69

Photograph of Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov standing in front of palm trees, nineteen thirty-five.

The Business of Pleasure

Lisa A. Kirschenbaum

Ilf and Petrov’s adventures in Americana READ MORE

KIOSK / 8 AUGUST 2024

Photograph of graffiti reading “Free Palestine from German guilt,” taken in Neukölln, Berlin, in July twenty twenty-four.

Oblivion Culture

Sarah El Bulbeisi

Countering the German taboo on Palestinian trauma READ MORE

ISSUE 69

Photograph of a young man holding a sign in Berlin that reads

Sapiens?

Hunter Dukes

The origins and obsolescence of an epithet READ MORE

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A cartoon of a man holding a sign that reads “The end is near in a way so repent somehow.”

ISSUE 68 / THE END

featuring Rebecca Comay, Dan Handel, Sonja Lau, Alexander Nagel, Aaron Schuster, Alenka Zupancic, and more READ MORE

BOOKS

Book cover reading:

The Virtual Sentence: A Book of Exercises

by Kyle Booten, D. Graham Burnett, Brian Dillon, Jeff Dolven, Jan Mieszkowski, Sally O’Reilly, Mónica de la Torre, and Elena Vogman READ MORE

ISSUE 68

Photograph of the solar eclipse of 10 September nineteen twenty-three observed from Proto Libertad, Mexico, by astronomer A. E. Douglas.

Light Devoured

Mats Bigert

From surrogate kings to sun shields READ MORE

ISSUE 69

A reproduction of a drawing in birchbark from Waldemar Jochelson’s nineteen twenty-six book “The Yukaghir and the Yukaghirized Tungus.” According to Jochelson, it depicts two individuals who once were a couple but are no longer together.

Love Lines

David Allen White

A suggestion on some letters of the Yukaghir READ MORE

ISSUE 68

An undated photograph of Hannah Arendt smoking a cigarette.

Hard Cases for a Handle Theory

Jeff Dolven

Chalk, soap, cigarettes READ MORE

ISSUE 68

A photograph of the carpeting in a hallway of the Wynn Las Vegas hotel.

Into the Labyrinth

Dan Handel

Designing the carpets that design us READ MORE

BOOKS

Book cover reading

The Mollino Set

by Lytle Shaw READ MORE

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KIOSK / 9 APRIL 2024

Two stamps showing daggers plunged into Palestine.

A Stamp on History

Hunter Dukes

Remembering Deir Yassin READ MORE