Reading: Shi Naian — The Water Margin: The Outlaws of the Marsh, Trans: J. H. Jackson

This is one of the classics of Chinese literature, and me being the philistine could only gawp over how thick …

Reading: (2nd time) Susan Mann — The Talented Women of the Zhang Family

In early 2008, before I moved to Berlin, I had a book-buying spree, and a couple of those books I …

reading: jorge luis borges – collected fictions

jorge luis borges – collected fictions

reading: theodor adorno – aesthetic theory

theodor adorno – aesthetic theory

reading: tracey emin – strangeland

tracey emin – strangeland

reading: hanna arendt – the life of the mind

hanna arendt – the life of the mind

Reading: walter benjamin – illuminations

walter benjamin – illuminations

Reading: Walter Benjamin – Berlin Childhood around 1900

The last few days I have enjoyed the rather delectable company of a hobo formerly from Berlin, now residing in …

Reading: Chingiz Aitmatov – Jamila

chingiz aitmatov – jamila

Reading: Susan Mann – The Talented Women of the Zhang Family

susan mann – the talented women of the zhang family

europe central

In another country, long enough ago to be only someone else’s life, I remember a summer entranced in my small …

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