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ISSUE 72

Falling Out of the World

George Prochnik

Portraits of Sigmund Freud’s home as a vanishing act READ MORE

EVENTS

Participatory Event / “The Book Handling Agency: The Berlin Session,” with Michel Chaouli, Jeff Dolven, Merve Emre, Tom McCarthy, and company

Books of Others, back room of Barettino Bar, Reuterstr. 59, 12047 Berlin
12 July 2026 READ MORE

ISSUE 71

A photograph taken on thirteen January nineteen seventy-nine of a large demonstration on the University of Tehran campus. The crowd holds up three placards depicting Ayatollah Khomeini, Ali Shariati, and Mohammad Mosaddegh, the leader of the oil nationalization movement.

Defeat as Method

Shahram Khosravi

Thinking from within the ruins READ MORE

CURRENT ISSUE

Pamphlets and brochures arrayed on a table

ISSUE 70 / Gray Literature

featuring Sally O’Reilly, John Smith, David Eggleton, Klara Kofen, and more… READ MORE

EVENTS

Performance / Hurry, 591 BC–2007: The Musical, with Kit Downes, Myra Eetgerink, Fernanda Farah, Hannah Hurtzig, Nina Katchadourian, Michelle Madsen, Augustin Maurs, and Sally O’Reilly

Lettrétage @ ACUD
Veteranenstr. 21, 10119 Berlin
24 July 2026 READ MORE

ISSUE 69

Two abstract, stick-line figures.

ISSUE 69

featuring Adam Broomberg, Rafael Gonzalez, James G. Harper, Craig Jones, Lisa A. Kirschenbaum, Reed McConnell, Philip W. Scher, and more READ MORE

ISSUE 71

Inciting Genocide: An Interview with Michael Sfard

Sina Najafi, George Prochnik, and Michael Sfard

The legal case against Israel’s Channel 14 READ MORE

ISSUE 70

Photograph of various gray literature books and pamphlets, including a title called “The Electrician’s Mate,” messily arrayed on a table.

The First Tomato to Know Everything

Sally O’Reilly

On gray literature and Webster’s Timeline History books READ MORE

ISSUE 71

Subdivided Memory

Sanders Isaac Bernstein

Sinti and Roma in German Erinnerungskultur READ MORE

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 71

Against Insularity

McNeil Taylor

Hellenism, Zionism, and the Greek archipelago 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 68

Artist Project / Embassies and Consulates

Heman Chong

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

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

KIOSK / 6 OCTOBER 2025

Spray-painted wall reading “In Gaza dies your Western dream.”

In Gaza Dies Your Western Dream

Alex Cocotas

Berlin, Palestine, and the writing on the wall 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

Graphic reading

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 71

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

Sapiens?

Hunter Dukes

The origins and obsolescence of an epithet 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

BOOKS

Book cover reading

The Mollino Set

by Lytle Shaw READ MORE

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