On the 24th, a team of writers, musicians, & artists will gather at 10 am in Berlin to attempt to make a musical in 10 hours flat. To prepare, we are revisiting Sally O’Reilly’s “On Why Soup Is Bad for Diurnal Rhythms,” written in 23 hours and 23 minutes. cabinetmagazine.org/issues/44/or...

On Why Soup Is So Bad for Diurnal Rhythms | Sally O’Reilly

The opposite of art

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To prepare for our Book Handling Agency event on Sunday (more information about that on the site), we revisit Josh Kun’s essay on his mother’s college marginalia in a copy of D. H. Lawrence’s 1923 “Studies in Classic American Literature.” www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/31/ku...

Studies in Classic American Literature by Rita Kamins | Josh Kun

Reading with my mother

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With so many completely ridiculous bookshelf photos and news, check out this brilliant Berlin happening (as satirical as it's full of gravitas) organized by @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social to make books look read and re-read inside and out www.cabinetmagazine.org/events/chaou...

Please join us in Berlin for an evening with New York’s fabled Book Handling Agency, an organization whose roster of scholars have been trained to transform your unread books into artifacts that will stand as monuments to your cultural erudition and discernment. cabinetmagazine.org/events/chaou...

Participatory Event / “The Book Handling Agency: The Berlin Session,” with Michel Chaouli, Jeff Dolven, Merve Emre, Tom McCarthy, and company | Cabinet

Date: 12 July 2026, 6:30–8:30 pmLocation: Books of Others, back room of Barettino Bar, Reuterstr. 59, 12047 Berlin (map)Free. No RSVP necessary. Cash payments only for book-handling services Hosted…

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Next month, under the auspices of @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social, Sally O'Reilly et al. will have 10 hours to make a musical about the history of hurrying. As proof of concept, she managed to answer over 10 questions from @return2sanders.bsky.social in 10 minutes:

Hurry! 3:09–3:19, Wednesday, June 10, 2026

A bit over 10 questions in 10 minutes on the musical Hurry, 591 BC–2007

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Berlin readers! Cabinet will have a table at Miss Read on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Come and say hello, buy a book, confess your fears about the heat wave, or simply tut-tut about nothing in particular. . . www.silent-green.net/en/programme...

MISS READ: The Berlin Art Book Fair & Festival 2026

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Book galleys, with tons of illustrations thanks to my favorite people at @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social! Can’t fault the politics of deadly spectacle for not being ever timely

On gray literature, Webster’s Timeline History books, and computerized curation: "The First Tomato to Know Everything" @sosallyo.bsky.social @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social (Plus- Mother's Day proclaimed) Hold on to the human: roughlydaily.com/2026/05/09/e...

Imagine being named John Smith. Now imagine being the avant-garde filmmaker of that name, maker of “The Girl Chewing Gum” and other gems. Now imagine being asked to write on “Webster’s Timeline History: John Smith, 1580–2007.” cabinetmagazine.org/issues/70/sm...

1996: A Most Productive Year | John Smith

An overachiever remembers

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In our latest issue, former New Zealand Poet Laureate David Eggleton visits the city of Bristol via antipodal Dunedin in a truly psycho geographical romp. “Let a medley of quotations serve to evoke this aura of sinister criminality clinging to … Bristol.” cabinetmagazine.org/issues/70/eg...

A Guide to Bristol from Antipodal Dunedin | David Eggleton

A truly psycho geographical romp

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With bombs falling on Iran, Shahram Khosravi examines what it means for the defeated of the earth to face their serial losses with “an open face,” as counseled by his father. How can we understand defeat as critique’s ethical point of departure? cabinetmagazine.org/issues/71/kh...

Defeat as Method | Shahram Khosravi

Thinking from within the ruins

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I should also recommend George Prochnik's truly beautiful and brilliant essay in @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social on Freud's trip to America, his doomed quest to meet a porcupine, and more. it's splendid and moving. www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/26/pr...

The Porcupine Illusion | George Prochnik

Freud’s prickly secret

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I can't stop thinking about this 15-year-old @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social essay www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/42/wi...

Our discussion with Israeli human rights lawyer Michael Sfard about his attempts to force a state investigation into whether repeated statements on Israel’s Channel 14 amount to incitement to genocide, a crime in Israeli law. cabinetmagazine.org/issues/71/na...

👀 Issue 70 / Gray Literature 👀 featuring David Eggleton, Klara Kofen, Rosie Oliver, Sally O’Reilly, John Smith, Spencer Spencer, and more… cabinetmagazine.org/issues/70/in... @sosallyo.bsky.social

Table of Contents 70 | Cabinet

<em>featuring Sally O’Reilly, John Smith, David Eggleton, Klara Kofen, and more…</em>

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Our discussion with Israeli human rights lawyer Michael Sfard about his attempts to force a state investigation into whether repeated statements on Israel’s Channel 14 amount to incitement to genocide, a crime in Israeli law. cabinetmagazine.org/issues/71/na... @michaelsfard.bsky.social

Inciting Genocide: An Interview with Michael Sfard | Sina Najafi, George Prochnik, and Michael Sfard

The legal case against Israel’s Channel 14

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The arc of desire is frail, and nowhere is this better glimpsed than in the “love lines” of the Yukaghir, which adorn our latest issue’s cover. All articles from issue 69 are now unlocked, just in the very nick of time for Valentine’s Day... cabinetmagazine.org/69

Carlin Wing’s new book, “Bounce: Balls, Walls, and Bodies in Games and Play,” will be published next week by MIT Press: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255321... In the meantime, you can read her essay from issue 56, “Episodes in the Life of Bounce,” here: www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/56/wi...

Episodes in the Life of Bounce | Carlin Wing

Playing with a rubber ball

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If @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social says so, it's official! SO excited--they're a writer's dream to work with!

New article: Sanders Issac Bernstein (return2sanders.bsky.social) investigates the construction threats to Berlin’s Memorial to the Sinti and Roma of Europe Murdered under National Socialism and the long struggle by Sinti and Roma for public recognition of what was done to them by the German state.

Syros wasn’t the only pilgrimage spot that seemed, to the Western eye, to have withered on the vine of ancient vitality. When Melville’s ship reached Palestine, his heart sank: “No country will more quickly dissipate romantic expectations than Palestine.” www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/71/ta...

Against Insularity | McNeil Taylor

Hellenism, Zionism, and the Greek archipelago

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A favorite essay on snow, by Charlie Fox, in @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/59/fo...

A Mind of Winter | Charlie Fox

The feeling of snow

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“Its appearance (remaking a field as a map gone blank) lays out a space approximating an empty mind.” A magical essay about snow that finds something deserving in everything said about it or made to mimic it. From the magical @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social, obvs www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/59/fo...

A Mind of Winter | Charlie Fox

The feeling of snow

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Enjoyed Igor Bezinović’s new film about Gabriele D’Annunzio’s creation of the Italian Regency of Carnaro, founded in 1919 and dissolved in 1920? Check out Reinaldo Laddaga’s article on the Fiume adventure from issue 58: “A City for Poets and Pirates.” www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/58/la...

In light of Serbia’s not-at-all-corrupt deal with Jared Kushner to redevelop the site of the monumental former Army Headquarters in Belgrade, we return to Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss’s history of this extraordinary modernist building, bombed by NATO in 1999. cabinetmagazine.org/issues/1/jov...

“Where Western eyes insist on finding Greece and only Greece, Syros insists on showing us the world.” McNeil Taylor on the Crown Iris protests on Syros and the overlapping fantasies, from within & out, that are called on to define “Greece.” www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/71/ta...

Against Insularity | McNeil Taylor

Hellenism, Zionism, and the Greek Archipelago

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"Amid this transformation, the walls of Berlin, a city often compared to Babylon, go on talking like the work of so many disembodied hands, delivering messages whose ultimate import we cannot fully comprehend, even as political authorities would prefer us not to see them."

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In our latest article, Alex Cocotas reflects on Berlin, the effacement of Gaza graffiti, and the writing on the wall. “The dream of the West is to grieve tomorrow for what we could have prevented today.” www.cabinetmagazine.org/kiosk/cocota...

In our latest article, Alex Cocotas reflects on Berlin, the effacement of Gaza graffiti, and the writing on the wall. “The dream of the West is to grieve tomorrow for what we could have prevented today.” www.cabinetmagazine.org/kiosk/cocota...

In Gaza Dies Your Western Dream | Alex Cocotas

Berlin, Palestine, and the writing on the wall

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Heman Chong’s artist project on the back entrances of embassies, with an introductory essay by Adam Jasper, is now online! www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/68/ch...

Artist Project / Embassies and Consulates | Heman Chong

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“When I was a little boy, I liked to pick my nose. In fact, I’ve enjoyed picking my nose for most of my life. This is not something to be proud of, but telling you about my nosepicking brings me to the word bice.” Jonathan Ames on bice from issue 1: cabinetmagazine.org/issues/1/ame...