During this summer break, the magazine is suspending its original publications. While we wait for the fall season to begin, we are offering a special feature for each issue, bringing together some of our articles published this year around a specific theme. This is an opportunity to discover articles you may have missed, rediscover those that caught your attention, and share some of K.’s publications with friends who are not yet familiar with us.
As a reminder, our archives are open, and we invite you to browse through the hundreds of articles we have published over the past four years.
This week, there is a breath of spring in our special feature, because it’s K.arnival: masked or not, the driving forces of criticism are unleashed, taboos are broken, and a joyfully destructive irony brings down all idols. The ball is opened by the mysterious Valeria Solanstein, whose scathing “Jewish Scum Manifesto” attacks the deafness of the Jewish world to demands for women’s emancipation. Next come two texts in which the crack of the whip echoes with the distant sound of boots: “Unsubmissive?” by Danny Trom and “Masochism or emancipation?” by Karl Kraus, each in its own way questioning the place of masochistic fantasies in the contemporary leftist imagination. For the faint of heart, Barbara Honigmann’s short story “What do goyim actually talk about?” offers an ironic moment of respite from this wave of bad taste. And for those who want more, Julia Christ’s text on The Appointment by Katharina Volckmer will remind them how useful Jews are when it comes to ensuring the unity of the German body.
