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Travel

  • The cemetery-goer

    The cemetery-goer

    On the travels of Karl-Markus Gauß, and the unlikely guardians of the dream of Europe.

  • Perhentian Sunrise

    Perhentian Sunrise

    A story about romance. « The eve of a suitor’s arrival, bigger than Christmas or birthday, I tell you. »

  • No money off a dead woman’s body (& other poems)

    No money off a dead woman’s body (& other poems)

    « I like my tyrants like I like my heroes. That is, crushed by a giant chandelier. »

  • A sangre fría

    A sangre fría

    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.

  • Planes, tanks & automobiles

    Planes, tanks & automobiles

    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.

  • To see a city

    To see a city

    « What if all fictional characters from novels continue to dwell somewhere, just like the dead? » Sewn together, the fragmented narratives of Daniela Hodrová’s City of Torment (Trýznivé město) make something deeply European.

  • What is a pillar?

    What is a pillar?

    In 2010, OMA was invited to take part in a competition for the Damascus National Museum. It was part of a concerted effort toward a political « rapprochement » with Bashar al-Assad. Three months later, the entire effort was cancelled. Civil war was about to break out.

  • On paths not taken

    On paths not taken

    « 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.

  • Place, non-place, place

    Place, non-place, place

    « What happened was that we were driving on the highway from Izola towards Koper when we saw a drummer on the side of the road. So I immediately drove to the side of the road and reversed my car and asked if I could take some pictures. »