Food
Cannibalinguistics
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Language-learning and people-eating in Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi’s The Centre.
« Ça ira! There will be fire and enthusiasm in you »
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In search of Anthon van Rappard, Vincent van Gogh’s forgotten friend.
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. »
Streuselkuchen
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A story about coolness. « The phone rings. It is Jim Jarmusch, and he asks if I want to come over to his place. »
The cemetery-goer
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On the travels of Karl-Markus Gauß, and the unlikely guardians of the dream of Europe.
Perhentian Sunrise
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A story about romance. « The eve of a suitor’s arrival, bigger than Christmas or birthday, I tell you. »
Coagulated soy juice
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〖 A killed darling. 〗 Lucia Berlin belonged to a less sanctimonious age than ours.
The room I am in
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Tight pants. Fashionable coats. Music. Defiant looks. On the last men & women who passed through the Bulgarian gulag.
Sugar Mouse
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A poem, plus a note on tongue-like mice and the translation of mice-like tongues.
On paths not taken
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« Genocide Studies » is a house with many rooms. It accommodates and even encourages a broadening of its central concept. And like all academic fields, it presumes its object of study will always be there.