Orientalist Arabesque
Else Lasker-Schüler’s novela The Nights of Tino of Baghdad came to me a couple of weeks ago. It’s free to […]
Else Lasker-Schüler’s novela The Nights of Tino of Baghdad came to me a couple of weeks ago. It’s free to […]
Here are three literary gems that I’ve enjoyed immensely over the past few weeks: two slender books and a slender […]
The best writing sends you down random rabbit holes toward other great writing. Such was the case with a 1940 […]
It was years—decades even—from the time I first read Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot before seeing a production of it. In that […]
It was years—decades even—from the time I first read Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot before seeing a production of it. In that […]
“Between you and me is not only a rocket trajectory, but also a life.” When asked about my thoughts regarding […]
I learned about this collection of short stories by Simon Fruelund from his translator K.E. Semmel on Twitter. It’s […]
I learned about this collection of short stories by Simon Fruelund from his translator K.E. Semmel on Twitter. It’s […]
Some nights I am overcome by a strange sensation that I can only define as cultural nausea. When Chris Marker, […]
At the beginning of November I was in Mexico City for a short holiday-cum-research trip. One of my research projects […]