Photo of bus route in Buenos Aires by Carolina Jaramillo / Stock.adobe.comTaking all the buses of Buenos Aires, a writer on a mission makes the city his own.
Around 2008 I made the unlikely decision t…
Essays
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Photo of LGBTQ Pride March in Buenos Aires by Ari / Stock.adobe.comEach November, Buenos Aires’s Pride march proceeds down a ten-block stretch that is the “spine of Argentine history,” fulfilling Eva…
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Photo of Once Quarter, Buenos Aires by Jordi Camí / Alamy.comVisiting the Jewish neighborhood of Once, a writer finds herself caught between a desire to escape the internet and a need to connect as sh…
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Photo of Stadio Diego Armando Maradona by Stefano Tammaro / Stock.adobe.comReflecting on his love of football, Oliverio Coelho has an epiphany: some players on the pitch stand out, not just for their…
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Photo by travelview / Stock.adobe.comTake a whirling tour of Buenos Aires’s secondhand bookstores and meet an array of eccentric reader types with porteño writer Matías Serra Bradford. A cinema transf…
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Photo by nickalbi / Stock.adobe.comIn any discussion of Buenos Aires, it’s probably useful to start out by defining our parameters. For the rest of the world, “Buenos Aires” conjures images of tango d…
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Photo of monument to Russian novelist Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky by abs0lute / Stock.adobe.comAgainst increasing calls to “cancel” Dostoevsky due to the Russian nationalism espoused in his writing…
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Photo of Lebanon by Patricia Abdallah / Unsplash.com“Through a sort of grating irony,” writes Charif Majdalani, Lebanon “remains a sort of model but in the negative sense of the term, because it conce…
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Photo by Ella Ivanescu / Unsplash.comClimate change, resource depletion, extreme weapons, AI, and more: Richard Heinberg looks at the individual threats composing the unprecedented convergence of risk…
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Photo of Sandra Day O'Connor by Yousef Khanfar / www.yousefkhanfar.comPhotographer Yousef Khanfar recalls his time with Justice Sandra Day O’Connor in this tribute to the first female justice of the U…
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Photo by Shevaun Williams | shevaunwilliams.comAfter accepting the NSK silver medallion, certificate, and a check symbolizing the $35,000 award, Gene Luen Yang delivered a heartwarming story about the…
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Even though the Latin American novel was never the West’s “Other,” the new Handbook published by Oxford University Press does a marvelous job of producing a sorely needed remapping of the continent’s…
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Mural in the vicinity of Croke Park, Dublin / Photo by Damjana Mraović-O’HareWhat are the three ancient Irish sports and how have they played a role in Irish history? Find out this and more in Mraović…
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When reflecting on the experience of interviewing his own grandfather into his one hundredth year, Matt A. Hanson finds a kindred methodology in writer Michael Frank’s patience as he interviewed Holoc…
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Sona Jobarteh, the first woman to achieve an international profile playing the kora, is a singular figure in the pantheon of twenty-first-century African artists. Read Banning Eyre’s profile of her h…
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Photo courtesy of authorA refugee from the Bosnian War, Lana Spendl recalls family weekends in the country outside of Sarajevo: her friend with one cow, her grandmother’s garden, butterflies, and her…
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Photos by Yousef Khanfar | www.yousefkhanfar.comThe tears, the rituals: a family goes on a journey and joins millions of strangers pouring into Mecca. In this moving essay, a writer evokes the beauty,…
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Photo BY 1983 (steal my _ _ art) on UnsplashTo accompany the poems that appear by the five Indigenous writers in this issue, Wendy Call talked with them to discuss their emancipatory linguistic activi…
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Ian Kuali’i, Portrait Queen Lili‘uokalani (2021), hand-cut paper with painted verso, 72 X 48 in.The following essay was originally delivered as a talk for a virtual poetry workshop for the De…
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Puracé Volcano in the Colombian Massif / Courtesy of WikipediaQuechua writer and Yanakuna poet Fredy Chikangana explores how the Yanakuna language “contributes seeds to the construction of a world…
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William Hogarth, Marriage A-la-Mode: 2. The Tête à Tête (1743)After a decade of talking to strangers while traveling, J. R. Patterson explores why strangers make some of the best conversation…
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For the past few years I’ve been living in Lahore. Like they have for many, the brave women-led Iranian protests have made me reflect on the rights of women and the price we pay for freedom and justic…
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When Irina Flige visited the University of Oklahoma to receive the 2022 Clyde Snow Social Justice Award earlier this year, she delivered the following public lecture, based on her work with the Russia…
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In the mid-1960s Lam’s mother ran an orphanage in Sadec in the Mekong Delta, when his father was stationed there.Remembering his mother, who loved and protected without wavering, writer Andrew Lam als…
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Alex Castro Ferreira, Be Proud, artist book / Courtesy of the artist / www.alexcastroferreira.com Where have books been? Where are they going? In this tour d’horizon, Alice-Catherine Carls f…