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Etymology

  • Talk Proto-Indo-European to me, darling

    Talk Proto-Indo-European to me, darling

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    *wīrós (man), *h₁ék̂wōs (horse), *gwéneh₂ (woman)

  • My tongue is Simón Bolívar’s wet dream

    My tongue is Simón Bolívar’s wet dream

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    My boyfriend had colombianized my Mexican. But my friends had also argentinized it, chileanized it, venezuelized it, ecuadorized it.

  • Moscow on the Med

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    Two winters in Istanbul. If you are a holder of a Russian passport, there are few places in the Western hemisphere that you can go without a visa.

  • Noise’s grip

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    On Malta, noise is the norm.

  • The size of longing

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    On Jacob Israël de Haan’s Palestine and Arnold Zweig’s novel of post‑Zionist disillusionment

  • « Everything starts with fire » — Interview with Hélène Cixous

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    « The smell was like the sharp notes of a trumpet, a sort of rat-tat-tat like a burst of gunfire, a bombardment. »

  • Forget your darlings

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    On memory palaces, medieval and modern. A medieval woman’s life would not have taken the form of a straight line.

  • How to people a landscape

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    On Cyril Schäublin’s Unrueh (2022), cinema & scale. « No other film has so resized me. »

  • Beamer, Dressman, Bodybag

    Beamer, Dressman, Bodybag

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

  • An archeology of the air

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    On Havelok the Dane, medieval air & the world’s largest wind farm

  • Flags & bones

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    On Curzio Malaparte’s Europe — and ours. The midcentury novelist read anew, on war’s aftermath and transatlantic romance. What was, or is, « postwar Europe », anyway?

  • Two palindromes

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    → → Pursuing / you lead me to come to the future.← ← coming to the future, I lead you / demanding.