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Tag: Travel
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The bar across the street
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Last week, I went every morning for breakfast to the perfect bar. You stood at the counter for your shot of coffee; the other customers all greeted the owner by…
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Shepherds of Europe!
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They’d put me on a float. It was midnight. A tractor hauled me and some twenty-five villagers into the woods. We were going to cut down a tree. I’d had…
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Neve in AgostoThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Snow in August: Winter as a disappearing cultural construct.
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Cultural observation
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A friend of mine from Brussels visited me in Rīga last week. She had never been to this part of Europe before, so there was a lot of exploration to…
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A kiss like a fish in the mouthThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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My schoolgirl passion for Julio Cortázar brings me to a Montparnasse grave with one husband and two wives.
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The sea between
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« In order to survive amidst this bleak existence, the Mediterranean people established two distinct strategies: hopelessness or salvation. Some embraced hopelessness as the best way to approach the absurd condition…
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Double negative
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Our first piece from Issue Eight, out from behind the paywall! « It’s best to go into Schengen’s history unshocked by contradiction. »
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The shortest, longest bus tripThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Travelogue of a day in Minsk & an eternity at the EU border.
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There was once a woman who
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A surprisingly rhyming excerpt from Inger Christensen’s novella « Natalja’s Stories ».
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No longer at homeThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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A review of Hangman: A Novel by Maya Binyam. «Returning home rests … as the thematic cornerstone of African and African-diasporic literature.»
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Of wild men and horsesThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Pastoralism is the antidote to industrial farming. Kapka Kassabova treks with wild horses in one of Europe’s last wildernesses.