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Joy Divisions

From genres featured in the Paléo Festival, an annual music festival in Switzerland, since 2017. Silky pop Crazy pop Kaleidoscopic literary pop Luminous hopscotch pop Astonishing synthetic pop Planetary pop…

Continental Divide

by Thomas Chatterton Williams,

Decades ago, my father implored me to get acquainted with James Baldwin. As is often the case with such parental injunctions, I ignored him for a long time, but once…

The Hills Have Eyes

From images hidden by cartographers in maps of Switzerland that have been published by the Swiss Federal Office of Topography. A man overlooking the town of Interlaken from a summit…

A Sport and a Passport

From an interview conducted by Swiss authorities with Fulden Funda Yilmaz, a woman who was born to Turkish parents in Switzerland. Yilmaz applied for citizenship earlier this year, passed the…

Demoniac Babble

by Estelle Hanania,

What knot to wear

Translated by Anthony Lydgate,

Campsite, Flumsberg, Switzerland, 2004

Art by Matthias Zielfeld,

Weekly Review

by Sam Stark,

Caught in the Web, 1860. Governments around the world attempted to slow the global financial catastrophe. Der SpiegelNYTThe stock market in Iceland reopened after a three-day suspension and immediately plunged…

Weekly Review

by Christopher Beha,

Stocks on Wall Street and other exchanges throughout the world dropped as brokerage Merrill Lynch was bought by Bank of America, insurance giant AIG sought tens of billions of dollars…

A servant to my chief

by Harper’s Staff,

Weekly Review

by Christian Lorentzen,

In a videoconference with Hong Kong investors, former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan said that America might sink into recession by year’s end; a frenzied worldwide sell-off ensued. The Shanghai…

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Joy Divisions

Continental Divide

The Hills Have Eyes

A Sport and a Passport

Demoniac Babble

What knot to wear

Campsite, Flumsberg, Switzerland, 2004

Weekly Review

Weekly Review

A servant to my chief

Weekly Review

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