Conversations Issue 5 — November 2024

Time for the Heart: Letters of Ingeborg Bachmann and Paul Celan

By Wieland Hoban

Paul Celan and Ingeborg Bachmann's postwar letters reveal the anticipation, rapture, euphoria and betrayal that comes with love.

Essay Issue 5 — November 2024

Sorry Can’t Talk Now I’m Too Busy Optimizing Myself (And Failing)

By Sinjan Saadat

Sinjan Saadat examines the nature of optimizing our being and non-being in our hyper-techno, image-driven world. His essay explores the ideas of German-Korean philosopher Byung-Chul Han and the art of "Feierabend"—the German term for “clocking out,” the hour when work ends and guilt-free leisure begins.

Essay Issue 5 — November 2024

Reading Rickshaw Art in Dhaka

By Aninda Rahman

Beyond commodity fetishism, performative appreciation and wholesale appropriation by the urban elite, Rickshaw art indicates an ancient and folk artisanship with a rich elemental diversity and stylistic imagination.

Essay Issue 5 — November 2024

My Favorite German Novel: Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain

By Kaiser Haq

Kaiser Haq recounts his many encounters with the works of German Novelist Thomas Mann, chiefly his favorite “The Magic Mountain”.

Conversations Issue 5 — November 2024

Everything is Accidental — A Conversation with Naveen Kishore of Seagull Books

By Mursalin Mosaddeque

A free-wheeling conversation with Naveen Kishore of Seagull Books about his journey into the publishing world.