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The forgotten impact of a war that didn't happen openDemocracy - The forgotten impact of a war that didn't happen
In his great novel Rabbit at Rest, John Updike’s protagonist Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom, a retired car salesman, bemoans the end of the Cold War: 'The cold war. It gave you a reason to get up in the morning. … Without the cold... MacEwan's environments: shining through Solar
One or Several Wolves: multiplicities and packs in art
"Franny is listening to the program on wolves. I say to her. Would you like to be a wolf? She answers haughtily, How Stupid, you can't be one wolf, you're always eight or nine, six or seven." - Deleuze & Guattari, 1987 Philosophers Itchy Homo, or Why I Am So Terrible: Notes on the 10-Year Making of The Suiciders
An extract from Travis Jeppesen's forthcoming book, The Suiciders Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about Georg Baselitz and his notion of “bad painting.” How this might correspond to writing, “bad writing.” To write badly on... Cracking heads open in Ukraine: a neurosurgeon’s story. Part 1
Igor is always waiting for me when I arrive at Borispil. He’s almost twenty years older than when I first met him. He has a few grey hairs now, and rather borrowing a colleague’s battered old Moskvich he has quite a respectable car of his own... A Soldier's Tale
8 December I’ve landed up in a parachute regiment basic training camp in Omsk [1]. Or several kilometres from Omsk. Exactly what I wanted. We went on the Moscow-Khabarovsk train via Ekaterinburg. It took more than 2 days and there were... Under Western eyes: reflections on Tolya’s letters
Russia has always had a conscript army. In the nineteenth century serfs had to serve first for 25 years, later reduced to 20. With the abolition of serfdom, the period of service for every Russian male was set at 6 years. Over the years this... |
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