Issue Nine
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Babushka Z Cosplay
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A Ukrainian great-grandmother inadvertently becomes a pro-Russian icon.
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The plant whisperers
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If you know what you are looking for, you find edible and healing plants everywhere.
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Carry The Prophet In Your Coat Pocket
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When you’re fifteen and you read Kahlil Gibran’s mystical bestseller for the first time.
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Glory to the rails
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Millions of Ukrainians left the country during the first weeks of the invasion; four million were evacuated by train, including a million children. Thousands of dogs, cats and other pets, too.
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Of trotting horses & angelic words
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I was reminded of Muybridge’s moving pictures while looking at the serial attempts of Ambrogio Lorenzetti (d. 1348/49) at rendering the invisible visible.
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Talk Proto-Indo-European to me, darling
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*wīrós (man), *h₁ék̂wōs (horse), *gwéneh₂ (woman)
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Texting with … Ece Temelkuran (2)
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« We are not aware of how defeated we are as intellectuals. »
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Queen of the night
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Maria Theresa, Habsburg empress, created the modern European state. To ponder her reign is to ask what the Enlightenment was — and is. Be careful with your nostalgias.
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My untranslatable name
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When my parents went to register my name after I was born, they carried out an especially elaborate plan. They acquired a chocolate bar
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My tongue is Simón Bolívar’s wet dream
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My boyfriend had colombianized my Mexican. But my friends had also argentinized it, chileanized it, venezuelized it, ecuadorized it.