Cabinet is a quarterly magazine of arts and culture that believes curiosity is the very basis of ethics. www.cabinetmagazine.orghttps://bsky.app/profile/cabinetmagazine.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/cabinetmagazine.bsky.social/post/3muub4zz3id2vNOW 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.” https://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/70/oreilly.php06 Sep 2026 15:01 +0000at://did:plc:inkwlu2mdltnsfeqcyx4rtc6/app.bsky.feed.post/3muub4zz3id2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/cabinetmagazine.bsky.social/post/3mu36sdxv4s2aWill 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. https://cabinetmagazine.org/issues/71/licht.php27 Aug 2026 15:42 +0000at://did:plc:inkwlu2mdltnsfeqcyx4rtc6/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu36sdxv4s2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/cabinetmagazine.bsky.social/post/3mt2hluvlts22@latimes.com cites George Prochnik’s article from issue 41, “The Orchestra: Listening to Sirens,” a meditation on sirens and their corrupting mythological allusions. https://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/41/prochnik.php [contains quote post or other embedded content]14 Aug 2026 15:22 +0000at://did:plc:inkwlu2mdltnsfeqcyx4rtc6/app.bsky.feed.post/3mt2hluvlts22https://bsky.app/profile/cabinetmagazine.bsky.social/post/3mquy6pribi2rOn 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. https://cabinetmagazine.org/issues/44/oreilly.php18 Jul 2026 00:13 +0000at://did:plc:inkwlu2mdltnsfeqcyx4rtc6/app.bsky.feed.post/3mquy6pribi2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/cabinetmagazine.bsky.social/post/3mq7ouk4irw2hTo 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.” https://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/31/kun.php09 Jul 2026 13:00 +0000at://did:plc:inkwlu2mdltnsfeqcyx4rtc6/app.bsky.feed.post/3mq7ouk4irw2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/cabinetmagazine.bsky.social/post/3mpqwxcmrj42jPlease 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. https://cabinetmagazine.org/events/chaouli_dolven_emre_mccarthy_book_handling_agency.php03 Jul 2026 16:15 +0000at://did:plc:inkwlu2mdltnsfeqcyx4rtc6/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpqwxcmrj42jhttps://bsky.app/profile/cabinetmagazine.bsky.social/post/3mp4ijy7fyc25Berlin 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. . . https://www.silent-green.net/en/programme/detail/miss-read-the-berlin-art-book-fair-festival-202625 Jun 2026 13:03 +0000at://did:plc:inkwlu2mdltnsfeqcyx4rtc6/app.bsky.feed.post/3mp4ijy7fyc25https://bsky.app/profile/cabinetmagazine.bsky.social/post/3mjmgy7gktc25Imagine 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.” https://cabinetmagazine.org/issues/70/smith.php16 Apr 2026 12:47 +0000at://did:plc:inkwlu2mdltnsfeqcyx4rtc6/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjmgy7gktc25https://bsky.app/profile/cabinetmagazine.bsky.social/post/3mijezii2ls2eIn 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.” https://cabinetmagazine.org/issues/70/eggleton.php02 Apr 2026 14:09 +0000at://did:plc:inkwlu2mdltnsfeqcyx4rtc6/app.bsky.feed.post/3mijezii2ls2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/cabinetmagazine.bsky.social/post/3mij7j7jvfk2cWith 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? https://cabinetmagazine.org/issues/71/khosravi.php02 Apr 2026 12:30 +0000at://did:plc:inkwlu2mdltnsfeqcyx4rtc6/app.bsky.feed.post/3mij7j7jvfk2chttps://bsky.app/profile/cabinetmagazine.bsky.social/post/3mftj7ucgr226Our 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. https://cabinetmagazine.org/issues/71/najafi_prochnik_sfard.php27 Feb 2026 10:35 +0000at://did:plc:inkwlu2mdltnsfeqcyx4rtc6/app.bsky.feed.post/3mftj7ucgr226https://bsky.app/profile/cabinetmagazine.bsky.social/post/3mfa2ifrfes2b👀 Issue 70 / Gray Literature 👀 featuring David Eggleton, Klara Kofen, Rosie Oliver, Sally O’Reilly, John Smith, Spencer Spencer, and more… https://cabinetmagazine.org/issues/70/index.php @sosallyo.bsky.social19 Feb 2026 16:51 +0000at://did:plc:inkwlu2mdltnsfeqcyx4rtc6/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfa2ifrfes2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/cabinetmagazine.bsky.social/post/3mf5nnbejts2eOur 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. https://cabinetmagazine.org/issues/71/najafi_prochnik_sfard.php @michaelsfard.bsky.social18 Feb 2026 17:55 +0000at://did:plc:inkwlu2mdltnsfeqcyx4rtc6/app.bsky.feed.post/3mf5nnbejts2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/cabinetmagazine.bsky.social/post/3me7aqh6z3k2fThe 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/6906 Feb 2026 15:45 +0000at://did:plc:inkwlu2mdltnsfeqcyx4rtc6/app.bsky.feed.post/3me7aqh6z3k2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/cabinetmagazine.bsky.social/post/3mck6mlph222yCarlin Wing’s new book, “Bounce: Balls, Walls, and Bodies in Games and Play,” will be published next week by MIT Press: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262553216/bounce/ In the meantime, you can read her essay from issue 56, “Episodes in the Life of Bounce,” here: https://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/56/wing.php16 Jan 2026 13:16 +0000at://did:plc:inkwlu2mdltnsfeqcyx4rtc6/app.bsky.feed.post/3mck6mlph222yhttps://bsky.app/profile/cabinetmagazine.bsky.social/post/3mbrf55dsx22gNew article: Sanders Issac Bernstein (return2sanders.bsky.social) investigates the construction threats to Berlin’s Memorial to the Sinti and Roma of Europe Murdered under National Socialism and the long struggle by Sinti and Roma for public recognition of what was done to them by the German state.06 Jan 2026 16:36 +0000at://did:plc:inkwlu2mdltnsfeqcyx4rtc6/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbrf55dsx22ghttps://bsky.app/profile/cabinetmagazine.bsky.social/post/3mbhc5o457c26Syros wasn’t the only pilgrimage spot that seemed, to the Western eye, to have withered on the vine of ancient vitality. When Melville’s ship reached Palestine, his heart sank: “No country will more quickly dissipate romantic expectations than Palestine.” https://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/71/taylor.php02 Jan 2026 16:16 +0000at://did:plc:inkwlu2mdltnsfeqcyx4rtc6/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbhc5o457c26https://bsky.app/profile/cabinetmagazine.bsky.social/post/3m6mbqg7v222tEnjoyed Igor Bezinović’s new film about Gabriele D’Annunzio’s creation of the Italian Regency of Carnaro, founded in 1919 and dissolved in 1920? Check out Reinaldo Laddaga’s article on the Fiume adventure from issue 58: “A City for Poets and Pirates.” https://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/58/laddaga.php27 Nov 2025 11:36 +0000at://did:plc:inkwlu2mdltnsfeqcyx4rtc6/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6mbqg7v222t