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Memoir

  • ~ Potpourri: France

    ~ Potpourri: France

    A style by turns brilliantly humane and creepily exhibitionist.

  • A letter from

    A letter from

    « 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 the first time humanity is mourning in the future tense. »

  • 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.»

  • Noise’s grip

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    On Malta, noise is the norm.

  • Photographer, refugee, king

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    A family’s travelogue from Phnom Penh to Paris and back

  • The pulverization of memory

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    Write your memoir in a hostile tongue. On Marina Jarre, from Latvia to Italy and back.

  • 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.

  • 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.