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Cabinet is a quarterly magazine of arts and culture that believes curiosity is the very basis of ethics.
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In her soundscape for issue 70, Rosie Oliver layers extracts from “Webster’s Timeline History: Grumbling, 415 BC–2007” with grumbling-related audio: buzzing bees, somber organ music, and the menacing thwap-thwap of helicopter blades. Listen here: www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/70/ol...
Artist Project / Grumbling | Rosie Oliver
For more information about this recording, read Rosie Oliver’s review of Webster’s Timeline History: Grumbling, 415 BC–2007 here.
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October 3, 2026 at 12:13 AM
In her soundscape for issue 70, Rosie Oliver layers extracts from “Webster’s Timeline History: Grumbling, 415 BC–2007” with grumbling-related audio: buzzing bees, somber organ music, and the menacing thwap-thwap of helicopter blades. Listen here: www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/70/ol...
We are pleased to share that Shahram Khosravi’s article “Defeat as Method” for issue 71 of Cabinet magazine has been translated into Arabic by Al Janoub: The Palestinian Journal of Liberation Studies for their sixth issue, “writing the unwritten.” www.cabinetmagazine.org/information/...
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Al Janoub, no. 6 (Fall 2026), babelwad.com Read Shahram Khosravi’s “Defeat as Method,” from Cabinet no. 71, here.
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September 19, 2026 at 12:13 AM
We are pleased to share that Shahram Khosravi’s article “Defeat as Method” for issue 71 of Cabinet magazine has been translated into Arabic by Al Janoub: The Palestinian Journal of Liberation Studies for their sixth issue, “writing the unwritten.” www.cabinetmagazine.org/information/...
NOW UNLOCKED! From our issue on gray literature, Sally O’Reilly’s essay examines “a literal peripheral”—wallpaper—by weaving together personal memory and the contextless scraps of information presented in “Webster’s Timeline History: Wallpaper, 1768–2007.” www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/70/or...
Wallpaper | Sally O’Reilly
A memoir
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September 6, 2026 at 3:01 PM
NOW UNLOCKED! From our issue on gray literature, Sally O’Reilly’s essay examines “a literal peripheral”—wallpaper—by weaving together personal memory and the contextless scraps of information presented in “Webster’s Timeline History: Wallpaper, 1768–2007.” www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/70/or...
Will Ozempic finish off the American buffet once and for all? In our latest Ingestion column, Thea Applebaum Licht remembers the rise of the “smorgy” and finds an unexpected parallel to its variety, temptation, and excess in the semaglutide era.
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Ingestion / Tempting the Temperate | Thea Applebaum Licht
The smorgasbord in the age of Ozempic
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August 27, 2026 at 3:43 PM
Will Ozempic finish off the American buffet once and for all? In our latest Ingestion column, Thea Applebaum Licht remembers the rise of the “smorgy” and finds an unexpected parallel to its variety, temptation, and excess in the semaglutide era.
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Alas, only in German, but this article on a place in Berlin that you can pay to make your book collection look thoroughly read (bent corners, broken spines, beverage marks; premium beverage marks and annotations are extra upgrades) is breaking my brain and needs sharing.
Schamgefühle wegen ungelesener Bücher im Regal? Das muss nicht sein
Die "Book Handling Agency" macht in Berlin Eselsohren und Absinth-Flecken jeden Band zum Monument der Gelehrsamkeit. Was steckt dahinter?
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July 14, 2026 at 3:17 PM
Alas, only in German, but this article on a place in Berlin that you can pay to make your book collection look thoroughly read (bent corners, broken spines, beverage marks; premium beverage marks and annotations are extra upgrades) is breaking my brain and needs sharing.
@latimes.com cites George Prochnik’s article from issue 41, “The Orchestra: Listening to Sirens,” a meditation on sirens and their corrupting mythological allusions.
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August 14, 2026 at 3:22 PM
@latimes.com cites George Prochnik’s article from issue 41, “The Orchestra: Listening to Sirens,” a meditation on sirens and their corrupting mythological allusions.
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Me: I really love my job they actually haven't invented a better career
Scholars in Berlin: bet shorturl.at/SxQOy
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Scholars in Berlin: bet shorturl.at/SxQOy
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Want books to look well-read? Now there’s a service for that
An idea to make books look a bit more used, once jokingly proposed by one Myles na gCopaleen, has been made real in German capital
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July 15, 2026 at 9:07 AM
Me: I really love my job they actually haven't invented a better career
Scholars in Berlin: bet shorturl.at/SxQOy
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Scholars in Berlin: bet shorturl.at/SxQOy
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I wrote a book that’s part bio of the troupe behind this photo, part Germany’s history fr above, part reflection on how we relate to risk & ruin. Preorder now from the wonderful @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social & support small publishers that give it their all secure.cabinetmagazine.org/store/produc...
August 9, 2026 at 12:32 PM
I wrote a book that’s part bio of the troupe behind this photo, part Germany’s history fr above, part reflection on how we relate to risk & ruin. Preorder now from the wonderful @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social & support small publishers that give it their all secure.cabinetmagazine.org/store/produc...
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.
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On Why Soup Is So Bad for Diurnal Rhythms | Sally O’Reilly
The opposite of art
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July 18, 2026 at 12:13 AM
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...
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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.”
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Studies in Classic American Literature by Rita Kamins | Josh Kun
Reading with my mother
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July 9, 2026 at 1:00 PM
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.”
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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...
Participatory Event / “The Book Handling Agency: The Berlin Session,” with Michel Chaouli, Jeff Dolven, Merve Emre, Tom McCarthy, and company | Cabinet
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July 3, 2026 at 6:35 PM
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.
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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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July 3, 2026 at 4:15 PM
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.
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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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June 23, 2026 at 8:55 AM
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:
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. . .
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MISS READ: The Berlin Art Book Fair & Festival 2026
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June 25, 2026 at 1:03 PM
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. . .
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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
April 28, 2026 at 9:10 AM
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
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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...
(Plus- Mother's Day proclaimed)
Hold on to the human: roughlydaily.com/2026/05/09/e...
May 9, 2026 at 4:21 PM
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...
(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.”
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1996: A Most Productive Year | John Smith
An overachiever remembers
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April 16, 2026 at 12:47 PM
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.”
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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.”
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A Guide to Bristol from Antipodal Dunedin | David Eggleton
A truly psycho geographical romp
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April 2, 2026 at 2:09 PM
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.”
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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?
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Defeat as Method | Shahram Khosravi
Thinking from within the ruins
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April 2, 2026 at 12:30 PM
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?
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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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March 11, 2026 at 11:46 AM
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...
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I can't stop thinking about this 15-year-old @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social essay www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/42/wi...
March 19, 2026 at 6:40 AM
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.
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February 27, 2026 at 10:35 AM
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.
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👀 Issue 70 / Gray Literature 👀
featuring David Eggleton, Klara Kofen, Rosie Oliver, Sally O’Reilly, John Smith, Spencer Spencer, and more…
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featuring David Eggleton, Klara Kofen, Rosie Oliver, Sally O’Reilly, John Smith, Spencer Spencer, and more…
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Table of Contents 70 | Cabinet
<em>featuring Sally O’Reilly, John Smith, David Eggleton, Klara Kofen, and more…</em>
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February 19, 2026 at 4:51 PM
👀 Issue 70 / Gray Literature 👀
featuring David Eggleton, Klara Kofen, Rosie Oliver, Sally O’Reilly, John Smith, Spencer Spencer, and more…
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featuring David Eggleton, Klara Kofen, Rosie Oliver, Sally O’Reilly, John Smith, Spencer Spencer, and more…
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@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.
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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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February 18, 2026 at 5:56 PM
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.
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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...
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All articles from issue 69 are now unlocked, just in the very nick of time for Valentine’s Day...
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February 6, 2026 at 3:45 PM
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
All articles from issue 69 are now unlocked, just in the very nick of time for Valentine’s Day...
cabinetmagazine.org/69