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A story about living. « I have a family and I have a job and I have a teaching gig, and these things have me. »

On the unexpected joys of Denglisch, Berlinglish & global Englisch. « My own language, made camp. »

On Edda Mussolini & fashionable fascism. Can a woman be dangerous yet powerless?

A story about romance. « The eve of a suitor’s arrival, bigger than Christmas or birthday, I tell you. »

What is editing? Two people who both lead a literary life — an augmented reality where the connections between existence and sentences are investigated daily — wage sensual war for the soul of the page.

« I guess it all began, » he said, « because of that weak-headedness my father sometimes had. It just rubbed me the wrong way. »
« —Tot va ser, passe a creure—començà—, per enfellonir-me d’aquella mena de fluixedat de cap que agafà al meu pare. »

Ramallah, downtown, fifth floor. The phone rings and the caller’s number appears on the screen. It’s an unknown number. And yet a call that comes at this hour must be answered.
رام الله، وسط البلد، الطابق الخامس. يرن الهاتف ويظهر رقم المتّصل على الشاشة. إنه ليس لأحد معارفنا، فالرقم غير معروف. مع ذلك، يتطلّبُ اتصال هاتفي في ساعة مبكِّرةٍ كهذه الردَّ عليه.