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  • ~ Potpourri: Malta

    ~ Potpourri: Malta

    He tried to live as if none of it had ever happened, but some stories don’t let you go.

  • 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. »

  • 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

  • Pixel War

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    Meet the strangest strangers, incels, conspiracy theorists, cyberpunks and Wikipedians.

  • Photographer, refugee, king

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    A family’s travelogue from Phnom Penh to Paris and back

  • Trouble at work and home while my son is abroad

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    A story about living. « I have a family and I have a job and I have a teaching gig, and these things have me. »

  • Five uneasy pieces

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    How I stopped being an older brother (& other stories)

  • 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?

  • On Kafkaesque pedagogy

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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?

  • An Unlucky Man

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    « He rolled down the window, went back to honking the horn, and started waving my underpants out the window. »

  • Borderland

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    The great storm surge is coming, it has always been coming in the borderland between Denmark and Germany. Here, Danish writer Dorthe Nors visits the Frisian Wadden Sea island of Sylt, as part of her travels along the North Sea coast.