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  • The Archipelago Conversations, an excerpt — Interview with Édouard Glissant

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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…

  • The Ogre, the Monk and the Maiden

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    A story about quarks and antiquarks, beauty quarks and strangelets, gluons, muons, prions, hadrons and charms.

  • An Unlucky Man

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    « He rolled down the window, went back to honking the horn, and started waving my underpants out the window. »

  • Borderland

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    The great storm surge is coming, it has always been coming in the borderland between Denmark and Germany. Here, Danish writer Dorthe Nors visits the Frisian Wadden Sea island of…

  • A rather disproportionate intervention

    A rather disproportionate intervention

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    An excerpt from Ijoma Mangold’s memoir, Das Deutsche Krokodil (The German Crocodile), available in English translation from the DAS Editions imprint of Digitalback Books

  • Stupid illnesses called « childhood »

    Stupid illnesses called « childhood »

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    An excerpt from I padri lontani / Distant Fathers (1987), the rediscovered memoir of Marina Jarre, available in English translation from New Vessel Press.