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It’s all about poetic swimmers
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In Issue Ten, Ece Temelkuran wrote a letter to our readers. The occasion was the publication of her new book, Nation of Strangers, that explores a moral, political and spiritual…
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A letter from
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« Even if you feel at home in time and space today, you know that you are already in mourning for the future loss of everything that is beautiful. This is…
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Talk Proto-Indo-European to me, darling
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*wīrós (man), *h₁ék̂wōs (horse), *gwéneh₂ (woman)
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My tongue is Simón Bolívar’s wet dream
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My boyfriend had colombianized my Mexican. But my friends had also argentinized it, chileanized it, venezuelized it, ecuadorized it.
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One last round | Son bir şansThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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English or Turkish? Tipsy or çakırkeyf? A letter to a bi-lingual editor
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The Barren Nothing-PlaceThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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On growing up in the creases of bilingual versions of T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land
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Letters from PersepolisThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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On the ruined city’s pilgrims & decoders
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Animal gameThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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A story about family. « ‘A woman of few words,’ he smiled. ‘How refreshing.’ »
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CannibalinguisticsThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Language-learning and people-eating in Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi’s The Centre.