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BorderlandThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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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…
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All is not vanityThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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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-roosterThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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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…
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The void that fills the voidThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Relics, and the places devoted to their worship, dotted the map of Europe and the Middle East. Saints, like today’s celebrities, were both omnipresent and faraway, once-vulnerable people who became…
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On learning to write againThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Ramallah, downtown, fifth floor. The phone rings and the caller’s number appears on the screen. It’s an unknown number. And yet a call that comes at this hour must be…
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Woman is spaceThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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« Space », or prostranstvo, is a key word for understanding the literary and philosophical history of Russia. Oksana Vasyakina’s Rana (Wound), a Siberian road novel, remakes the Russian landscape and the…
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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
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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.