“It’s important to be honest with yourself, my shrink says at the end of one of our sessions—even if you don’t want to tell me everything. I make a weak joke—I’m Asian, I was brought up being judged. She doesn’t laugh, merely offers a tight smile before writing some notes.”
«Pienso ahora que el motivo de la quema de brujas no fue ni andar por el aire con la escoba, ni las asambleas que hacían; era más bien el que picaran huesos, picaran sesos hasta dejarlos bien molidos.»
“For years I knew him only as the biographer of Jack Spicer, the enigmatic poet who penned the unforgettable sentence: ’if it were spelled mune it would not cause madness.’ But Kevin Killian was much more, an experimental writer, a playwright – and the most important Amazon reviewer of all time.”
Schlüpfrige Lyrik und abgegriffene DVDs, Gebrauchsdinge und Gimmicks, Kampfpuppen und Kartoffelsalat. Egal was Amazon Kevin Killian nach Hause schickte, seine Reviews verwandelten es in große Literatur. Zwei Snapshots seiner genialen Rezensionskunst, aus dem Englischen von Clemens J. Setz.
It was a tragic turning point in the history of decolonization: the CIA-backed ousting and assassination of Congo’s president Patrice Lumumba. In the era’s visual and sound archives, Johan Grimonprez has tried to find a soundtrack to this fateful coup d’état, but fails to grasp its complex rhythms.
Neither Trump’s nor Putin’s pet came out as president from the elections, but there is little doubt that one day Romania will follow its neighbors into the lure of mobster governance. Until then, investors, ideologues, and influencers are prepping up for one more round of selling out their country.
If we want to find peace with ourselves and others, we must repeat and work through the wounds of the past—at least that’s what psychoanalysis tells us. The essays and photography published in our Reader 4 confront these methods with the harsh realities of the present.