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Plague Dreams of the Future City
Plagues kill citizens. They reconfigure cities. An outbreak of yellow fever in Buenos Aires in 1871 emptied the southern districts of wealthy resident …
Read moreLest We Forget
The recent actions of Black Lives Matter (BLM) protesters tearing down statues of the slave owner Edward Colston in Bristol has drawn public attention …
Read moreWhere We Live Now: Covid Toponyms
[We] read in place-names a record of important events and reconstruct something of the culture of the namers at the time they assigned names to the pl …
Read moreWriting the Mother Tongue
aussenraum / outside area so many languages hide beneath your trees in the secret corners of your alleys and in the well which, in winter, is b …
Read moreBecoming Wild
I didn’t set out on an adventure to discover my wild side, to deliberately release my feral urges. The journey came for other reasons, but in the walk …
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