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Russian and Me by Katia Gregor
I have an issue with Russian. I always have had. And yet for the past few months I’ve longed to speak it, hear it, read it. I crave it. <><><> I grew up with four languages: Russian,...
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View ArticleTHE ITALIANIST: Riveting Italian Books You Need to Know About by Alex...
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I came across the work of Mario Rigoni Stern completely by chance, picking up one of his books in an idle moment at a railway station some forty years ago. But it was only many years later that I...
View ArticleTönle’s Arrest. An extract from TÖNLE’S STORY by Mario Rigoni Stern, with...
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View ArticlePoetry Travels with Anna Blasiak and Lisa Kalloo: ON THE WAY TO THE SHOP by...
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View ArticleTrafika Europe Corner: An excerpt from the play AGAINST FRATERNITY written in...
“The cockpit of an airplane. The pilot begins an announcement. Good afternoon, this is your captain speaking. Pause. Testing… Pause. What I will tell you now will… will be… will be forgotten. No one...
View ArticleThe Polka: What’s Riveting in Polish Literature by Anna Blasiak
I was a voracious reader when growing up, I always had a book (or several) in my hand, I was reading in any and every situation, sometimes after lights out against my parents’ wishes, by candle- or...
View ArticleThe Polka: What’s Riveting in Polish Literature by Anna Blasiak. Joanna Bator...
I first encountered Joanna Bator’s writing when, just before my first trip to Japan, a very good friend gave me a copy of Bator’s The Japanese Fan (Japoński wachlarz, 2004), a non-fiction book on...
View ArticlePoetry Travels with Anna Blasiak and Lisa Kalloo: SNAKE DEATHS by Monika...
my grandmother's youngest brotherlong lay face-down in the haybefore they discoveredhis young corpsewhen the walnuts peered out of their green podshe gathered their wrinkly headscracked them bare then...
View ArticleTHE ITALIANIST: Riveting Italian Books You Need to Know About by Alex...
I first encountered Alessandra Carnaroli as a poet. As did most Italian readers. The novel I want to spotlight for this month’s Italianist is her first full prose publication. To call it fully prose,...
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