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Issue Ten.

Childhood

  • A Madman’s Tale

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    « I guess it all began, » he said, « because of that weak-headedness my father sometimes had. It just rubbed me the wrong way. »

  • 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.

  • Child Kings

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    « Time is a child playing draughts; the kingship is a child’s. »

  • 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

  • So, kill him [at Aulide]

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    here he is        in his bed, so scared                 he can’t move

  • Let’s enjoy the moon

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    Eight young women live in a college run by nuns in Rome; an excerpt from Alba de Céspedes’ There’s No Turning Back (Nessuno Torna Indietro).

  • Miracle & yonder

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    Paul Simon’s Graceland & country music’s global history. «The idea of anti-apartheid country music is counter-intuitive but profound.»

  • The Barren Nothing-Place

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    On growing up in the creases of bilingual versions of T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land

  • Animal game

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    A story about family. « ‘A woman of few words,’ he smiled. ‘How refreshing.’ »

  • Doom is in the details

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    Floods, hailstorms, plague, fire, children lost on a mountain or trapped for years in a ruined villa. On the stories of Adalbert Stifter.

  • The pulverization of memory

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    Write your memoir in a hostile tongue. On Marina Jarre, from Latvia to Italy and back.

  • No man’s land

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