Memoir
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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.
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The shortest, longest bus trip
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Travelogue of a day in Minsk & an eternity at the EU border.
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Bethlehem, Jericho & a view of Jerusalem
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A Palestinian writer mentally retreats to three unreadable cities.
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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.
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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.»
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The pulverization of memory
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Write your memoir in a hostile tongue. On Marina Jarre, from Latvia to Italy and back.
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Planes, tanks & automobiles
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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.
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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 Sylt, as part of her travels along the North Sea coast.
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All is not vanity
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Lose, delete, restore. What to remember when everything is always, forever, in a digital now?
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The prodigal half-rooster
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Maggie Nelson’s On Freedom and Lea Ypi’s Free spoke past one another from half a world away. But both ask whether freedoms mean anything if they are not practiced in public, and if they are not passed on — and whether the word « freedom » means anything at all.