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Maryam Monalisa Gharavi's work gathers the complexity and nuance often present in histories of migration and displacement – histories that force a particular attention to the conditions and uses of language, its ideology, and its poetry – and she approaches these issues, directly or indirectly, through writing and visual art....

The vigilance of a critical machine guarantees the smooth and uninterrupted operations of a production chain. It is a machine whose function is to monitor other machines. What is this machine in the art world, and how would it function? Mirene Arsanios reports from <em>Critical Machines</em>, a conference co-organized by...

I first came across The Post-Apollo Press through Jalal Toufic's book, <em>Undying Love or Love Dies.</em> But it was not until I read Lyn Hejinian's <em>My Life</em> that I discovered the richness of Simone Fattal's publishing work. She has published many authors that have stood out to me as references:...

Magazines are often an indication of the intellectual and cultural life of a city or country at a specific point in time. Beirut's history of avant-garde magazine production between the 1950s and 1970s is a rich and largely untapped archive for cultural critics to mine. Here, Mirene Arsanios, a writer...