Taxis Magazine

25/04/2023

NEW: It's Taxis' latest Яeview, our series of reviews of books that do not exist. Up this time: "Unconscious: An Olfactory History of the Fingerhof Family," by Fyodor Fingerhof, a professor in the Post-Humanities Department of NYU

Review of Unconscious: An Olfactory History of the Fingerhof Family

13/01/2022

NEW: Pavel Barša reviews books by three "89ers" (Anne Applebaum, Timothy Snyder, and Ivan Krastev) on what happened to liberal democracy in East-Central Europe, showing how an external influence "totalitarianism" frame on the region's history disguised nationalisms that would react against the West https://taxismag.com/the-89-ers-respond-to-the-collapse-of-their-dreams-d7991eccd5e3

Ivan Krastev, Anne Applebaum and Timothy Snyder on the anti-liberal turn

28/12/2021

NEW: Aliosha Bielenberg on memory in a Cypriot village, both the personal and political, and the connections and divergences between them https://taxismag.com/who-remembers-paliomylos-5f16c6fa987c

From the Troodos Mountains of Cyprus

09/11/2021

NEW: Dimiter Kenarov goes in search of a Macedonian serial killer who turns out to be a writer himself, leading him to new insights on the line between fiction and nonfiction https://taxismag.com/riding-in-the-passenger-seat-273ed52e966d

On the trail of a serial killer

18/10/2021

NEW: The remarkable story of a chess player's showdown with a computer to win his family's freedom from the Italian mob that had shepherded him out of the Soviet Union

Chess as family history

17/05/2021

NEW: In an exclusive translation from the original in the Süddeutsche Zeitung, Birthe Mühlhoff writes on why, despite recent travails and seeming regressiveness, she thinks it remains worth staying in the Catholic Church

Seven Reasons Why I Remain in the Catholic Church

17/05/2021

The entirety of Dimiter Kenarov's Danube journey travelogue is now available as a single article here:

A Bulgarian writer took a trip down the Danube with a group of photographers. This is what happened. (The first of a three-part series.)

12/04/2021

NEW: The conclusion of Dimiter Kenarov's journey down the Danube—including meeting the guard of an abandoned prison in a Bulgarian town that "looks like Chernobyl without the nuclear explosion—where the only disaster has been the slow decay of economic collapse" https://taxismag.com/danube-revisited-91e6e1affd9c

29/03/2021

NEW: Dimiter Kenarov, author of our profile of the Black Sea, begins a journey down the length of the Danube with different photographers. Read how his childhood "fairy tale" perspective on the river clashes and intersects with the realities of tourism and concentration camps he finds in Germany and Austria in this first installment...

A Bulgarian writer took a trip down the Danube with a group of photographers. This is what happened. (The first of a three-part series.)