Dutch Light
For years, painters from Holland enjoyed an unfair advantage.Until it suddenly disappeared. Picture the sea, waves crashing at the shore and water stretching to the horizon. Now think about containing...
View ArticleKenneth Goldsmith on the end of the Internet
The internet seems endless. But is it really? A conversation with American poet and artist Kenneth Goldsmith. Will the Internet end? There is an old hacker joke, a website that says “You have reached...
View ArticleEverything ends
There’s a feeling that swells up your veins and chokes your senses, an internal tornado that blitzes out all thought. That’s the awareness of your own mortality. My Grandmother faced the same fate as a...
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Telephone Angel
What if you could talk to the dead? Consider the box. Slick black, a shoebox-sized container made from waterproof polyurethane. It is tastefully minimalistic. And it has the word “TelefonEngel” written...
View ArticleEnd of the Story
We asked renowned writers to share their experience of crafting one of the most essential parts of any story: the last sentence. Douglas Coupland The last sentence appears and suddenly I say to myself,...
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Turf War
In Valencia, plans to extend a road towards the sea would mean the end of a historic distric. A walk through an area slated for destruction. This is a story about intertwined endings. And about...
View ArticleSongs of Love and Hate
Any attempt to compile a list of the ultimate break-up songs is bound to fail. Like any compilation or list of songs on a specific theme, it is highly subjective and will in all likeliness result in...
View ArticleNext up: Sleep
Sleep, you black-eyed pig, fall into a deep pit full of ghosts. – Icelandic lullaby, early 19th century. Greetings from Iceland, where the sun barely makes it above the horizon at this time of the...
View ArticleHans-Ulrich Obrist on Sleep
The famous curator’s schedule barely allows for sleep. But his job requires it.A talk about fighting the internal clock – and embracing it. What does sleep mean to you? My understanding of it is very...
View ArticleA Place, between Sleep and Awake
About the magic of a fleeting, daily moment. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep. – William Shakespeare, The Tempest Act 4, scene 1, 148–158 There is a...
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“Sleep is a problem-solver”
Max Richter has composed an eight-hour long lullaby to help listeners fall asleep and to pay tribute to the most enigmatic of human activities. On an album that is not intended to be heard. You have...
View Article6am
The scope of human history doesn’t allow for sleep. It’s an appropriate time to write about sleep. 6 am in San Francisco, the morning light jabbing in like lightning bolts through the blinds of the...
View ArticleA Natural Nuisance
We live in overtired times, and sleep has turned from a necessity into something worth fixing. Rafael Trujillo, the notorious Caribbean dictator, never slept. He did, of course, but the people living...
View ArticleOh the little ones
This magazine started out with the idea of a dog-trimming salon on a Formula One racetrack. But that idea wasn’t ours: It had come from a Japanese boy, who told a friend of ours about this peculiar...
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“Kids don’t suffer from the limitations we do”
A few years ago, Anne Kjær Riechert began asking children to draw their dreams. It has turned into a surprisingly insightful way to visualize kids’ minds and psyche. Tell us how you came up with asking...
View ArticleThe Animal Cracker Plot
We asked our contributor Yara Zgheib to write about kids, and she sent us a children’s story. At least on first glance. “Someone told me it’s all happening at the zoo.” The little boy smiled. He hummed...
View ArticleYoung at Heart
Do you remember who you were before the world told you who you should be? I still wonder to this day if children are humans in their purest form. Untouched by the world, unfazed by all the complexity,...
View Article“We don’t have any positive pictures of adulthood”
If growing up is so hard, why should we do it? In her book „Why grow up?“, Susan Neiman ponders our idealized image of childhood and fear of adulthood. Our societies cherish youth as the prime time of...
View Article“We are rational people”
The Devil brings out the best in us, says Magus Peter H. Gilmore, High Priest of the Church of Satan. But only, if we don’t believe in him. Is Satanism evil? Good and evil are subjective valuations,...
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“People say: ‘Father, I need an exorcism.’”
Fr. Gary Thomas is the mandated exorcist within the Diocese of San Jose, California. Who better to ask about the existence Satan, demons, and the dangers of practicing yoga? The Idea List: How do...
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