Epistles
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Letters from PersepolisThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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On the ruined city’s pilgrims & decoders
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« Ça ira! There will be fire and enthusiasm in you »This article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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In search of Anthon van Rappard, Vincent van Gogh’s forgotten friend.
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Of human children & language children
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The first word I ever wrote was stsikukha: « pisser ». This is how my nanny Frosya called me to my face. On poetry and pathos in a bastard tongue.
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A recipe for word vomitThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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On pregnant silences, and how to abort them — via Jane Austen’s Lady Susan, Whit Stillman’s Love & Friendship and our own manners & morals.
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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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Why we writeThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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A letter to George Orwell. « All narrative is hypnotic. Some narratives are more hypnotic than others. Because of you, we can be conscious of the kinds and the workings of the narratives that set out to deaden us, lessen us, make us lie, make us part of the lie. »