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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

“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...

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...

"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."

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...

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...

“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...

'In 1953, while working a hotel switchboard, a college graduate named Shea Zellweger began a journey of wonder and obsession that would eventually lead to the invention of a radically new notation for logic' @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/18/we...

For our latest Inventory column, Jim Moske explores a beguiling collection of images from the NASA archives: photographs of flameholders, taken mainly in the 1940s and 1950s, which seem like cousins once removed of Dada experimentation. cabinetmagazine.org/issues/69/mo...

Amanda Feilding wasn’t only a leading propagandist for drilling a hole in one’s head but also an early advocate for therapeutic psychedelics and drug policy reform. She died last month, aged 82. Read Christopher Turner’s article on Feilding from issue 28. www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/28/tu...

NEW ARTICLE: James G. Harper and Philip W. Scher discuss German anthropologist Julius Lips’s groundbreaking treatise on African, Indigenous Australian, and Oceanic depictions of foreigners, “The Savage Hits Back, or, The White Man through Native Eyes.” www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/69/ha...

In Berlin? Or within one week’s hiking distance? Come visit Cabinet at the Miss Read art book fair next week hosted by Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW). We will be selling books, magazines, and posters, and would love to meet our readers!

"complicity, wrapped in the cloth of remembrance"... Chilling. Makes one think of what Sarah El Bulbeisi has written on the German taboo on Palestinian trauma in a critique, that is urgently relevant to analyses of current German foreign policy and memory politics cabinetmagazine.org/kiosk/el_bul...

Read the statement by Sara Nadal-Melsió—associate director of the Whitney Independent Study Program—regarding the Whitney’s cancellation of “No Aesthetics Outside My Freedom: Mourning, Militancy, and Performance.” www.cabinetmagazine.org/kiosk/nadal_...

In “Shoah,” a Jewish barber cuts hair while recounting the atrocities he witnessed during the Holocaust. In “Route 181,” a Palestinian barber cuts hair while describing a massacre of Palestinians during the Nakba. A trial in Paris turned on how to read these two parallel scenes.

As it’s his birthday, please enjoy David Byrne digging into surprising histories of the colour pink in this article for @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social “Needless to say, suggesting that prison cells be painted pink was not an immediately popular idea…” www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/11/by...

“What sort of a life is it if we are to rest in shifts and not together as a whole proletariat? It is no holiday if you have to have it alone.” On this May Day, why not read Tony Wood’s “Labor Days: Reinventing the Workweek in the Soviet Union” from issue 61? www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/61/wo...

We published a new artist project today: “Anchor and Archive: The Uprooting of Palestinian Olive Trees,” a series of photographs taken by @adambroomberg.bsky.social and Rafael Gonzalez in the West Bank, with an introduction by Irus Braverman. www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/69/br...

NEW ARTICLE: Reed McConnell’s “Academic Discipline,” which investigates the tradition of Karzer, German university prisons where students (such as Karl Marx) were sent for a range of offenses: dueling, making a nocturnal racket, and leading vagabond-like lifestyles. @reedreedreed.bsky.social

Two of Cabinet’s editors recently had the opportunity to chat about the past and future of the magazine with book critic Alexander Wells (@ajbwells.bsky.social). Read the full interview in this month’s issue of The Berliner.

We are saddened to learn that artist Rutherford Chang has passed away. In 2004, Rutherford proposed a spectacular poster for our “Average” issue: The New York Times’s front page with every section’s words cut out (by hand!) and reordered alphabetically. www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/15/ch...

Reflecting on the origins of “totalitarianism”—a system that preserves the form of competitive democracy while, in reality, gutting it—after voting in the New York elections and after reading Samuel Clowes Huneke’s essay in @bostonreview.bsky.social. www.bostonreview.net/articles/sam...

Copenhagen readers! On 17 February, Ark Books is holding a philosophy reading group discussion based on @hunterdukes.bsky.social recent essay “Kojève & Cigarettes: Fact-checking American Geist.” www.cabinetmagazine.org/kiosk/dukes_...

Photographs of works by Larry Moss and Ralph Dewey, two American contemporary balloon practitioners—the latter a pioneer of evangelical “gospel ballooning.” Jonathan Allen’s article “Pop Art: Inflationary Aesthetics” is now unlocked. www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/37/al...

Wrote a short piece for this celebration of Matt Freedman, “One for the Ages,” on collaborating with him for the weird and wonderful “Iron Artist” competition at @momaps1.bsky.social in Summer 2006. The book is available through @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social

For Bauhaus master and album cover designer Josef Albers, “remaking the world by attending to all its seemingly inconsequential detail was an ethical proposition, a way of avoiding the casual, unthinking replication of bad design,” writes Eva Díaz. www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/37/di...

The amazing @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social is here!

Hello Bluesky! Please enjoy D. Graham Burnett’s essay for issue 60, “Notes Toward a History of Skywriting,” featuring this lovely image by Robert Hill, unlocked for a limited time. www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/60/bu...