I feel a fraud for not having read Ulysses, so I buy a postcard and some lemon soap and leave. Continue reading
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Category Archives: Literary Travel
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Translation by the Lake
During the Austro-Hungarian Empire Balatonfüred was a holiday resort for the rich, and an important centre of intellectual life. However, on a wet and windy night in the early twenty first century it felt more like Cromer in November. Continue reading
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Early spring in Tokyo
My knowledge of Japanese is limited, to say the least. Continue reading
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Notas de viaje
Geographically the Philippines is a little out of the way and writers feel isolated from the global literary scene. Continue reading
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Reclaiming histories
History untold is non-existent history. Continue reading
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Erasing histories
How writers and artists combat attempts to erase histories that don’t fit in mainstream narratives. Continue reading
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Yangon diary
Dan and I are the only foreigners taking part in the conference, and all the information we’ve seen has been in Burmese, so we’re not entirely sure what’s going on. Continue reading