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(Read an interview with Samuel Steward from the summer of 1993)

‘pere… pere… ras… perer… razb… razl… grabl… braz… razb… gor… gor… grom… roiz…’

Defending Difference

Narrative in the Arabic canon

“Somewhere a dog barked.”

‘Speakers of Mandarin tend to see time both horizontally and vertically, with new events emerging from the ground like a spring of water, the past above and the future below’

Rory of the Hills rides again

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Three years as Tommy, CJ and Niko

(Tom Bissell: The Grammar of Fun)

Trading stories with the land

Arabizi Peazi

‘There are a number of reasons that a perfect (or even near perfect) dictionary is an impossibility…’

Filthy, filthy language

‘Five plain declarative sentences that get the story started at full speed-WHAP! You’re right in that room at the Shanghai Conservatory on that June afternoon in 1981.’

Why hasn’t translation from India’s many vernacular languages into English flourished?

‘As Esperanto, Zamenhof’s “beloved child,” became a cranky adolescent…’