Childhood
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A Silence SharedThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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« If a story just like that one — dying babies, divine retribution — had come back to me from childhood memories, it would have seemed fantastical, unreal. »
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« When I was silent… » — Interview with Sulaiman AddoniaThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Stop! I am doing what they all do: presenting writer Sulaiman Addonia as one-who-has-suffered, because he grew up as a refugee. It is a problem of genre. Suffering has become an interviewer’s crutch.
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Two palindromesThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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→ → Pursuing / you lead me to come to the future.← ← coming to the future, I lead you / demanding.
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Glossomania-maniaThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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On language invention. To desire some other perfect language is at once to acknowledge and to overlook the miraculousness of what we have.
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On Kafkaesque pedagogyThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Not the nightmare one might instinctively expect. Franz Kafka and Stig Dagerman on parenthood vs. educatorhood: who can educate a child?
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An Unlucky ManThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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« He rolled down the window, went back to honking the horn, and started waving my underpants out the window. »
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A rather disproportionate intervention
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An excerpt from Ijoma Mangold’s memoir, Das Deutsche Krokodil (The German Crocodile), available in English translation from the DAS Editions imprint of Digitalback Books
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Stupid illnesses called « childhood »
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An excerpt from I padri lontani / Distant Fathers (1987), the rediscovered memoir of Marina Jarre, available in English translation from New Vessel Press.