Issue 27 | May 2019

A Special Feature: Confronting Waste

• Introduction by Hélène B. Ducros

Research

• “Waste in Literature and Culture: Aesthetics, Form, and Ethics” by Susan Morrison

• “Colonial Ideologies of Waste: Implications for Land and Life” by James Wilkes and Myra Hird

• “Radioactive Waste Challenge for European Integration and Enlargement: Soviet Nuclear Legacy in Central and Eastern Europe After 1989” by Tatiana Kasperski

• “The Multiple Ontologies of Surplus Food” by Megan Blake

• “Europe Has E-Waste Problems: Exporting to Africa Isn’t one of Them” by Josh Lepawsky

• “From Throwaway Society to Circular Economy: Solution or Comforting Illusion?” by Willi Haas

• “Brokers in the Fight Against Waste” by Isabelle Hajek

Interviews

• “Textile Recycling in Victorian Literature: An Interview with Deborah Wynne” by Hélène B. Ducros

• “Approaching Waste through Environmental History: An Interview with Thomas Le Roux” by Hélène B. Ducros

Visual Art

• “Second Chance, Last Chance,” an art series curated by Hélène B. Ducros

Fiction

• Excerpt from The Boy by Marcus Malte, translated from the French by Emma Ramadan and Tom Roberge

Reviews

• The Human Planet: How We Created the Anthropocene, reviewed by Jill Schneiderman

• A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle & La guerre civile en France, 1958-1962, reviewed by Hugh McDonnell

• State of Madness: Psychiatry, Literature, and Dissent After Stalin, reviewed by Rebecca Reich

• European Disintegration: A Search for Explanation, reviewed by Sartirios Zartaloudis

Campus

• “Sponsored Research in the First Year of College” by Svetlana Nikitina

The Daily

• “Biomethane: The Future Fuel for Europe” by Salman Zafar

Editor’s Pick

• Europe, China, and the Limits of Normative Power by Zsuzsa Anna Ferenczy

• Spain at War: Society, Culture, and Mobilization, 1936-44 edited by James Matthews

• De la poubelle au musée, une anthropologie des restes by Octave Debary