Browsing Archive September, 2018
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Editorial Note 0
Introduction to Issue #13
Here’s the new Quarterly, #13. To me, it reads as a series of reports from far afield—a kind of foreign correspondence. We begin with M. J. Andersen’s remembrance ...
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Essay 10
Leaving the Paper
One day in August of 2016, my husband and I flew from Boston to Minneapolis, picked up a rental car, and set out for Spicer, Minn. The drive, ...
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Writing about Writing about Alexandria – A Response to May Hawas
May Hawas’s compelling—and funny—essay “How Not to Write about Cosmopolitan Alexandria” exemplifies how to write about Alexandria. Hawas critiques how others have written about the city, its history, ...
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Alexandria – and its “cosmopolitanism” – encore et toujours
In early January 2014, some three months after the publication of my Alexandrian Cosmopolitanism: An Archive, a British professor e-mailed me to say he was reviewing the book ...
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Refugees and the Fate of Europe
There are people who are afraid of insects. If they think there is one insect in the house, they can’t sleep. It gets to the point where they ...
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Spain 2018: The Spanish Spring and the Migration Crisis
Finally, after years of delay, the last few months have brought something like a Spanish Spring, complete with surprising changes but also with political “volatility and instability,” as ...
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Book Review 0
Rethinking Dust: On Carolyn Steedman, Archival Studies, and Critique
On Carolyn Steedman’s Dust: The Archive and Cultural History I should observe, in opening, that Carolyn Steedman’s Dust: The Archive and Cultural History (2001) possesses the unique capacity ...
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Close distance
“Close distance” is a term I coined in 2015 when I was writing a novel as part of my studies in Lancaster University’s Creative Writing Programme. When writers ...
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The Art of the High-Born: A Look Back at Bahman Farmanara’s Shazdeh Ehtejab
I was moved to re-watch Bahman Farmanara’s Prince Ehtejab (1974) after seeing the profusely televised royal wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. Apart from the fact that ...
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Book Review 0
Marx as Flawed, Manic, and One of Us: a Review of Marx Returns
Jason Barker, Marx Returns (Winchester, UK and Washington, US: Zero Books, 2018) “Do you not exist? Do you feel like a machine? Does your life count for a ...
