Europe’s complicity has not only sustained the genocide of Palestinians, but also triggered a crisis of political legitimacy. If any political or moral credibility is to be salvaged, a different movement from below is needed.

In Japan and Germany, post-mortem cleaners have become unlikely interpreters of social breakdown. Four researchers from the Max-Planck Institute of Berlin consider the causes of and approaches to lonely death in advanced capitalist societies. What is owed to the dead, and by whom?

“But history / Is not without a malicious sense of humor, / And commerce is cleverer than it gets credit for.” Ryan Ruby plucks at the strings that stretch from there to here, from our skulls to our screens, in three poems on looking and not looking, doing and not doing.