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The Ninth Spring: One Day at the Kolibi
Kapka Kassabova
Kapka Kassabova visits the Osmanovi family in the southern Balkans.
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Jessica J. Lee
‘I had never known an alley to be so green.’
Jessica J. Lee returns to Taipei.
Notes on Craft
Scholastique Mukasonga
‘It was the 1994 genocide of the Tutsis that made me a writer.’
Invisible Loyalty
Jan Morris
An essay on Welsh identity from Allegorizings, the final book from the late Jan Morris.
The Translator I Never Wanted to Be
Mariam Rahmani
‘Translation had always struck me as unsexy. Or perhaps something more insidious than that.’
On translating In Case of Emergency by Mahsa Mohebali.
A Hunger
Fran Lock
‘Both has a way of being neither.’
An essay by Fran Lock from the anthology Queer Life, Queer Love.
Talismans of Blood and Memory
Philip Kurian
On the worldwide campaign to return sacred objects to the ancestral communities from which they were taken.
The Sum of Life’s Troubles Makes a Whole Damn Dish
Nuraliah Norasid
‘I have become the muscle of the operation, folding butter and egg yolks into the flour and kneading all two kilograms of dough’.
Nuraliah Norasid on women’s work.