Culture et idées
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Murano Parsnips: The Unexpected Literary History of the Dildo
“The poem treats the dildo with the inflated seriousness of a mock epic, describing its hero with astonishing material precision.”
The Paris Review · EN
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Turner Brooks’s Spatial Memories
Brooks examines buildings less as ends in themselves than as prisms for the human dramas they contain.
The Paris Review · EN
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Ernest Hemingway, Unlocked: The Sun Is Still Rising
“Everybody my age had written a novel and I was still having a difficult time writing a paragraph.”
The Paris Review · EN
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Sexless in the City: The Second Life of Cynthia Buchanan’s Maiden
“ ‘She was looking for a man,’ Cynthia Buchanan writes of the virgin’s quest. ‘She sure was looking for some man.’ ”
The Paris Review · EN
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Our Fall Issue Cover: Elizabeth Glaessner’s Big Head
“The title kind of teases the painting. It’s a tiny person painting a giant head, which sounds like it could be about the ego.”
The Paris Review · EN
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Alisa Weilerstein’s Cello
“ ‘It’s a bird, it’s a plane!’ people cried. No, just a cello on a moonlit flit.”
The Paris Review · EN
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Kazuo Ishiguro, Unlocked: The Butler as Metaphor
“Kazuo Ishiguro inhabits his characters as if there were no true Kazuo Ishiguro to be known.”
The Paris Review · EN
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Belgrade Diary: Election Day in Serbia
The Serbian Progressive Party's leader, Aleksandar Vučić, finally had a real competitor in Student List.
The Paris Review · EN
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The Alchemical Transformations of the Mutus Liber (1677)
Carl Jung’s copy of the “mute book”, an alchemical manual charting (through a series of images) the “humid way” of forging the Philosopher’s Stone.
Public Domain Review · EN
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Paul Carus’ The History of the Devil and the Idea of Evil (1899)
A history of the Evil One, from the earliest times to the present.
Public Domain Review · EN
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Rudolf Kalvach’s Wiener Werkstätte Postcards (1907)
Postcards that summon medieval grotesques and brightly coloured folk art, but also feel distinctly modern.
Public Domain Review · EN
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“Men with Queer Nerves”: The Jumping Frenchmen of Maine
In the late nineteenth century, visitors to Maine observed something strange: French-Canadian lumberjacks who, at the slightest stimulus, seemed to jump, strike out with their limbs, or mimic languages they could not speak. Ross Bullen introduces us to these so-called “Jumping Frenchmen” and to their greatest investigator, George M. Beard, who saw a link in their behavior between religious frenzy and neurasthenia.
Public Domain Review · EN
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Immortal Beloved: Krishna and Rādhā Exchanging Clothes (ca. 1700–1900)
Indian images that grapple with the unbearable fact that lover and beloved are not one.
Public Domain Review · EN
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“Earth Not a Globe”: Parallax’s Zetetic Astronomy (1865)
A book more or less responsible for the revival of Flat Earth theories in the modern period.
Public Domain Review · EN
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Albrecht Dürer’s Monument to the Vanquished Peasants (1525)
The design for a difficult-to-interpret monument that was never intended to be built.
Public Domain Review · EN
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Wonderful Weather: Floods and Foreboding in 17th-Century Britain
When the Bristol Channel flooded in 1607, it was not just one of the worst natural disasters in British history, it was also a sign, for many, that they had strayed from the path of God. Erik Crnkovich examines the overlap of miraculous weather and the early modern printing industry, which cultivated a thirst for all things occult, exotic, and odd.
Public Domain Review · EN
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New Jersey, the Diesel State
A data center in the Meadowlands recently leaked five thousand gallons of fuel into a nearby creek. The Riverkeeper of the Hackensack gives a tour.
The New Yorker · EN
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Dante de Blasio Is Off Vocal Rest
As a newborn, the son of the former mayor won free music lessons for life at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music—and then he quit. Now he’s finding his way back to the notes.
The New Yorker · EN
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How Democrats Are Reclaiming the Politics of Populism
In the midterms’ most competitive races, Democratic candidates are reviving an old party message: that the Republicans are selling out to the highest bidder.
The New Yorker · EN
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An Exiled Filmmaker’s Unsparing View of Contemporary Russia
Andrey Zvyagintsev’s “Minotaur” is the first independent feature to portray Russian life during the war with Ukraine.
The New Yorker · EN
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Common Scams to Avoid
Thinking of throwing that ball for your dog? He might be scamming you.
The New Yorker · EN
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Briefly Noted Book Reviews
“Music Against the Night,” “Her Kind,” “A World We Share,” and “The Flying Death.”
The New Yorker · EN
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Nothing Is Stopping the Flood of A.I. Political Ads
An A.I.-generated Josh Shapiro talking about “deleting incriminating e-mails.” An A.I.-generated Abdul El-Sayed and the words “DEATH TO AMERICA.” They’re not real, but can voters tell the difference?
The New Yorker · EN