The destruction of Gaza has remained strangely invisible, despite unfolding before a global audience, write Hamit Bozarslan, Anne-Lorraine Bujon and Joël Hubrecht in their introduction to the new issue of Esprit, entitled ‘Palestine: A future to rebuild’. At the heart...
His first poetry collection at nineteen, his second at twenty-two, then a collection of award-winning prose, at twenty-five – the geography of Artur Dron’s life is already remarkable. Born and raised in Pidmykhailivtsi in the Ivano-Frankivsk region, he studied at...
With 1.3 billion people (and counting) living with disabilities around the world, and in the context of a neoliberal order that prioritizes ‘competition and body optimization’, it has never been more crucial to explore the ‘relationship between health and disability’,...
President Donald Trump’s unjustified and unjustifiable war against Iran has shown the fragility of the fossil fuel-based energetic order. At the very same moment, China’s meteoric rise as the world’s renewable energy superpower is no less than reshaping the future...
Viktor Orbán’s defeat has deprived the European far right of its most successful model of government. Patriots for Europe remain the third strongest group in the European Parliament, but they have lost the politician who, over a long period, managed...
Narratives of Apocalypse are a defining feature of the present. In parallel, narrative itself is in decline, or even obsolete, according to many thinkers. Mittelweg 36 examines the paradox: ‘Why has the end-times narrative become popular precisely when narrative itself...
One’s mother tongue is the greatest comfort blanket, an intimacy like no other, in which we feel most at ease and secure alongside others who speak and think in our unique and shared code. Language is also a structure in...
Although a consensus is forming as to the necessity of an ecological approach, ecology has been politically neutered and, in many cases, appropriated by state and commercial worldviews. As a result, there is an urgent need to reexamine the critical...
Campaigning in the December 2019 British general election, Boris Johnson informed voters that ‘We have a deal with the EU that is ready to go, it is oven ready … you just put it in the microwave and there it...
There were hardly any American films at Cannes this year, but one of them was a clear festival highlight. Written and directed by its star, Jordan Firstman (I Love LA), Club Kid tells the riotous story of a party animal...
