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Topic: Memoir

  • The man who told you so

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    As his book of collected journalism shows, Polish journalist, defense minister and foreign minister Radosław Sikorski saw it all coming.

  • The geography of safety

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    Yugoslavia was Europe’s last open door for Jewish refugees fleeing Hitler. It was nobody’s dream.

  • Neve in Agosto

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    Snow in August: Winter as a disappearing cultural construct.

  • Exiled in Toronto

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    Yugoslav writer Daša Drndić refused to be a « good refugee ».

  • Vova stopped killing the geese

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    When the Russians occupied his village.

  • ~ Potpourri: France

    ~ Potpourri: France

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    A style by turns brilliantly humane and creepily exhibitionist.

  • A letter from

    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…

  • Carry The Prophet in your coat pocket

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    When you’re fifteen and you read Kahlil Gibran’s mystical bestseller for the first time.

  • The shortest, longest bus trip

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    Travelogue of a day in Minsk & an eternity at the EU border.

  • Bethlehem, Jericho & a view of Jerusalem

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    A Palestinian writer mentally retreats to three unreadable cities.

  • Of wild men and horses

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    Pastoralism is the antidote to industrial farming. Kapka Kassabova treks with wild horses in one of Europe’s last wildernesses.

  • Miracle & yonder

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    Paul Simon’s Graceland & country music’s global history. «The idea of anti-apartheid country music is counter-intuitive but profound.»