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The Singularity by Dino Buzzatti

Translated by Anne Milano Appel

“Either it isn’t a secret but I don’t know what it is; or I know but it’s a secret; or it’s a secret and on top of that I don’t know what it is.”

August 2024

By the EuropeNow Editorial Committee

Here is this month’s editor’s pick from Research Editorial Committee members Luke Johnson, Hélène B. Ducros, Brianna Beehler, Nick Ostrum, and Edina Paleviq.

With/out Place: Negotiating Belonging Through Art in Post-Yugoslav Europe

By Lora Sariaslan and Claske Vos

Artistic practices are indispensable in addressing queries about what and who constitute “Europe,” because they express feelings of belonging and can make visible what the dominant consensus obscures and obliterates. Through their art, visual and performance artists in the former Yugoslavia invoke new transnational and transitional spaces of belonging in Europe.

Lo Stadio di Wimbledon by Daniele Del Giudice

Reviewed by Anne Milano Appel

Why would a man firmly rooted in the literary world of his time never write a word of his own? This is the question Daniele Del Giudice’s debut novel Lo stadio di Wimbledon sets out to answer.