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« When I was silent… » — Interview with Sulaiman AddoniaThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Stop! I am doing what they all do: presenting writer Sulaiman Addonia as one-who-has-suffered, because he grew up as a refugee. It is a problem of genre. Suffering has become…
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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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Two palindromesThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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→ → Pursuing / you lead me to come to the future.← ← coming to the future, I lead you / demanding.
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A sangre fríaThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Fernanda Melchor’s prose hits you square in the face, but its lyricism works differently in Spanish. On Veracruzano modernism, lyrical slang, and worlds so new that style falls apart.
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The Archipelago Conversations, an excerpt — Interview with Édouard GlissantThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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An excerpt from The Archipelago Conversations with the late French Carribean philosopher and poet. « The archipelagos of the Mediterranean must encounter the archipelagos of Asia, and the archipelago of…
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Glossomania-maniaThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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On language invention. To desire some other perfect language is at once to acknowledge and to overlook the miraculousness of what we have.
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The Ogre, the Monk and the MaidenThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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A story about quarks and antiquarks, beauty quarks and strangelets, gluons, muons, prions, hadrons and charms.
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MetaphrasisThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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A short story about fiction, from the author of Plunder.
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Who will speak European? A puzzleThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Brussels is a concave mirror that returns a concentrated (and somewhat distorted) reflection of the projection of its continent.
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The pinnacle of cartography is the pinnacle of uselessness
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« Europe », drawn from memory or intuition. Thick and thin strokes of charcoal: a nod to the coal and steel on which the polity of modern Europe is founded. But more…
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The final frontier
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New short fiction from the author of Autumn, Winter, Spring, and Summer. A story about what’s ours and what’s not ours.
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On the anti-poetry of « crowdfunding campaign »
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Kickstarting used to be something you did to an engine. To « kickstart » the European Review of Books makes it feel like we’re riding a motorcycle in World War I. But…