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Cover for: Crises past and present

Crises past and present

Vikerkaar 6/2025

Vikerkaar on why grey rhinos are riskier than black swans when it comes to epochal crises; how the Estonian government averted a crisis of state by crushing fascism in 1934; and why Estonia’s AI enthusiasm may provoke a crisis of education.

Cover for: Moral truth

Moral truth

De Nederlandse Boekengids 8–9/2025

Thirty years on from the Srebrenica massacre, how The Netherlands has failed to acknowledge the ‘moral truth’ of the victims. Also: perspectives on the fascism debate; and why society needs a conversation about dying.

Cover for: Borders and empire

Borders and empire

Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie 193 (2025)

Borders and boundaries in the Soviet order: How the rhetoric of borderlessness hid imperial practices. Also: filmmaker Andrei Konchalovsky and the metaphysics of oil; and Andrei Sinyavsky’s literature of delinquency.

Cover for: Complexity

Complexity

Wespennest 188 (2025)

In Wespennest: On the definition of hyper-complex systems; why keeping it simple is not always good political communication; how complexity became the hallmark of the musical avant-garde; and how new genres and platforms are making our interaction with literature more complex than ever.

Cover for: Reflexive self-ethnography

Reflexive self-ethnography

springerin 1/2025

springerin looks back on 30 years of art and cultural criticism: including Boris Buden on the benevolent westernizer; Yvonne Volkart on altered artistic landscapes; Süreyyya Evren on spaces of conflict; and Hans-Christian Dany on illusions of subjectivity.

Cover for: Foundry of Swedish feminism

Foundry of Swedish feminism

Ord&Bild 1/2025

Ord&Bild revisits the Fogelstad Citizen School for Women and its role in the Swedish women’s movement. With articles on prominent alumni, including working-class feminist writer Moa Martinson; modernist artist and sculptor Siri Derkert; and pedagogue and civil rights campaigner Karin Stenberg.

Cover for: Popular culture in flux

Popular culture in flux

Varlık 5/2025

In Varlık: how northern cultural hegemony is being challenged by Bollywood, Korean television dramas, K-pop and Nollywood; also, post-emotional human relationships and the aesthetics of uncertainty.

Cover for: Fragmented Middle East

Fragmented Middle East

La Revue nouvelle 1/2025

In La Revue nouvelle: Why peace in Lebanon requires understanding Hezbollah; which way the Iranian regime will turn; and whether more international law means greater lawfulness.

Cover for: Hard-bodied heroes

Hard-bodied heroes

rekto:verso 105 (2025)

In rekto:verso: what the body of the action hero says about relations of power; why yoga’s discourse of accessibility rings hollow; and whether fitness practitioners should really be reading Mishima.

Cover for: To have a body

To have a body

Esprit 3/2025

Esprit revisits the philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty: including Guillaume Le Blanc on ‘incarnation’; Corine Pelluchon on eco-phenomenology; and Judith Revel on Merleau-Ponty, ‘the eternal runner-up’.

Cover for: In the spirit of the times and against the grain

Osteuropa at 100: Manfred Sapper on the history of the journal from Weimar to the present; Gerd Koenen on a century of German–Russian projections; Katharina Raabe on eastern European literature in translation; Dorothea Redepenning on the bilateral politics of classical.

Cover for: Trust, bordering and necro-racism

Trust, bordering and necro-racism

Soundings 88 (2024)

How disenchantment with government has fuelled necropolitics; statue mania in the age of empire; and a conversation about censorship, self-censorship and Palestine.

Cover for: Muzzled music

Muzzled music

Index on Censorship 4 (2024)

The Taliban’s persecution of musicians in Afghanistan; how performing the wrong songs became deadly in Turkey; a fresh wave of repressions against popular music in Cuba; and the stigmatization of drill in the UK.

Cover for: Dangerous dreams

Dangerous dreams

New Humanist 139 (2024)

Problematic tech philosophies: How ‘effective altruism’ and ‘longtermism’ have permeated the highest echelons of academia and government; the ethical concerns surrounding brain-computer interfaces; and enduring obsessions with the blood transfusion.

Cover for: Nationless identity

Nationless identity

Glänta 2/2024

On the past, present and future of Kurdistan: rethinking power structures; statelessness in a world of states; and Kurdistan as a war laboratory.

Cover for: Hidden groundbreakers

Hidden groundbreakers

L'Homme 1/2024

Localized political shifts have shaped Ukrainian women’s rights over the centuries: the Russian Empire once afforded property rights for aristocratic women in the south; socially active daughters of Greek-Catholic priests founded Galician societies under Habsburg rule; and forced migrants today forge new academic paths.

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