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All articles filed in personal essays

personal essaysJune 9, 2020June 27, 2020

Disturbing the Comfortable and Comforting the Disturbed

Andrzej Tichý writes on music and migrant experience

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personal essaysMay 19, 2020June 27, 2020

This Is Not an Arthur Koestler Novel – This Is Turkey

Can Bahadır Yüce writes on Turkey’s response to coronavirus, and calls for the release of at-risk political prisoners

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personal essaysApril 14, 2020May 13, 2020

Zoonotic

South African writer Henrietta Rose-Innes writes on lockdown in Cape Town, and spider bites.

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personal essaysApril 7, 2020May 13, 2020

Plague Diary: A Week

Three days from a week of Portuguese writer Gonçalo M. Tavares’s coronavirus diary.

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personal essaysMarch 26, 2020January 1, 2021

How to Quarantine a Revolution

Lebanese writer and actress Dima Mikhayel Matta writes on quarantine, revolution, and being queer in Beirut.

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personal essaysFebruary 11, 2020April 27, 2020

Who Gets to Write What?

Ananda Devi writes on Mauritius and London, the purpose of fiction, and appearing to tread dark territories.

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