Art That Contains Theories

Issue 26 | Literature | December 19, 2021

A foreword to the literature of issue 26

Around a hundred years ago a sort of novel abounded which with each passing decade became more and more endangered until, especially here in America, it went practically extinct. In these books grand

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Permanent Impermanence

By Jenny Erpenbeck

As soon as the owner of an old wardrobe/television/bicycle pushes it off the ramp, as soon as it’s “in there,” as they say at the…

A Letter to Vania

By Yousri Alghoul

I’m still breathing, I’ll tell her, and so are those around me.

Everyone Is Innocent

By Elias Khoury

“You mean to say that when this war’s over, you expect us to start fighting all over again?”

The Work Without Markers

The Mind of a Minotaur

Ideas of Slavery

A History of Erasures

Hell

Love in the Age of the Pickup Artist

Death Is Not the End

Against Advice

It’s All Over

Wanting Bad Things

On Being an Arsehole