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Category Archives: language

Literarischer Ausritt Pt. 1

Earlier this week, a great young writer from New York told me over beers that authors like Barthelme and Coover are really not such a big deal in the States. Truly a shame, I think, and what’s worse: even less people seem to have heard of Walter Abish’s incredible How German Is It. It’s about [...]

ECHOES OF VOICES IN THE HIGH TOWERS

We mentioned Robert Montgomery before, and we are bound to be mentioning him again since we like his work so much, so we are really excited that his biggest project to date will be opening in Berlin tomorrow evening, in the beautiful park of the former air strip of Tempelhof airport – Tempelhofer Freiheit, as [...]

POLITICS OF THE POOR

Pixadores are members of the Pixação movement in São Paulo. It’s a huge number of people from the lower class who use street art to express their political wishes through a language of tagging that they developed.
The photograph presents pixação tags, which are spread all over São Paulo, from public squares to rooftops and balconies of the [...]

INTRODUCING MR WARE

Since it’s all about Japan these days at the office, we thought we should share the introduction to our current issue with our friends on the island – since we’ve been including a Japanese insert with our issues sold in Japan through Utrecht for quite some time now. We don’t know how to say it [...]