The Machine, the Leather, the Skin
Computational designer and tattoo artist Assaad Awwad on the body as archive, the materials he hasn't yet mastered, and why his most personal piece will never be seen.
Ghannouj
She Waited. That Was the Whole of It.
Annie Ernaux's Simple Passion is not a love story. It is a forensic account of a woman who has reorganised her life around waiting — and what that waiting costs her.
Made by Hand, On Purpose
It is not that hands are better than algorithms. It is that certain materials contain problems that can only be solved in person, and the solving of them produces knowledge that cannot be abstracted without being lost.
Going Nowhere in Particular
The tourist who spends two days in a city has arrived. The person who stays for ten days has possibly begun to be there. On the epistemology of slow travel — and what a place only shows you after it stops performing.
She Does Not Run
Across six television productions on three continents, the same narrative structure recurs: a woman is handed a verdict. She declines it. What follows is construction.
The Wall He Was Watching - The Shell by Mostafa Khalifa
Mostafa Khalifa spent thirteen years in Tadmor. The Wall He Was Watching doesn't dramatise that. It reports it — and the distinction is the entire argument.
The Last Time You Notice
A Paris steakhouse on its final lease, a Le Creuset orange that no longer exists, and the kind of attention that only shows up once. May We Suggest — five things worth noticing, once..