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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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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…