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Memory

  • Looted libraries

    Looted libraries

    « In both countries, it has left the government officials grappling with an extremely delicate and complex issue. Why is it so difficult to move forward? »

  • Bethlehem, Jericho & a view of Jerusalem

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    A Palestinian writer mentally retreats to three unreadable cities.

  • How to abandon an archive

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    When an authoritarian regime collapses, what happens to the archives of its secret police?

  • The size of longing

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

  • 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.

  • The pulverization of memory

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    Write your memoir in a hostile tongue. On Marina Jarre, from Latvia to Italy and back.

  • A Silence Shared

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    « If a story just like that one — dying babies, divine retribution — had come back to me from childhood memories, it would have seemed fantastical, unreal. »

  • When the world makes rags of us

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    He spoke of painting like a starving man speaks of food. On Józef Czapski, Memories of Starobielsk and the art of observation.

  • « When I was silent… » — Interview with Sulaiman Addonia

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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 an interviewer’s crutch.

  • Two palindromes

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

  • 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.

  • Planes, tanks & automobiles

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    You could tell the US army had arrived because the local garages had sold out of whiskey. Old maps, new wars & vanishing memories along the Polish-Ukrainian border.