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Saša Stanišić: Wie der Soldat das Grammofon repariert
Publiziert von btb
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Clay Shirky: Little Rice
Published by Columbia Global Reports
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A three-hour drive east
You can escape the freezing winter snows and winds of Kabul by taking only a three-hour drive east through the Silk Gorge to Jalalabad, where oranges are being harvested. You can escape the humid summer heat in marshy Kunduz, where temperatures often exceed forty degrees Celsius, by moving to the mountains of Badakhshan. – Thomas Barfield: […]
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Dual citizenship
Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use only the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify […]
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Richard Yates: Eleven Kinds of Loneliness
Published by Vintage