Kit Maude
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Photo by Mistervlad / Stock.adobe.comAn Argentine in Stockholm marvels over the Swedish language and Sweden’s culture. The first time I ever heard Swedish spoken was on a visit to Stockholm. I was in…
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Photo of Chacarita cemetery Dario Ricardo / Stock.adobe.comSome mornings from my ground-floor study window I see a man pass by on a bicycle with a boy on the backseat behind him. Normally by then I’d…
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Photo of LGBTQ Pride March in Buenos Aires by Ari / Stock.adobe.comEach November, Buenos Aires’s Pride march proceeds down a ten-block stretch that is the “spine of Argentine history,” fulfilling Eva…
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Photo of Rivadavia by Jaay dev Singh / Unsplash.comBuenos Aires is many things, including a city for walking, snapping photographs, and writing poetry in notebooks while nibbling a medialuna in a coff…
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Photo of Stadio Diego Armando Maradona by Stefano Tammaro / Stock.adobe.comReflecting on his love of football, Oliverio Coelho has an epiphany: some players on the pitch stand out, not just for their…
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Painting by Liza Martín, Untitled (2024), oil on canvas, 20x26cm.Twenty-five degrees Celsius at midday on the winter solstice: the collected humidity of an entire continent bears mercilessly, shameles…
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The Woman He was a disgrace of a man. The lowest of the low. He pounded the table, every blow making the kerosene lamp shudder. The noise was accompanied by intermittent bursts of neurotic ranting an…
- Kolkata. Seagull Books. 2021. 312 pages. WHAT IS CHESS if not a metaphorical microcosm of a myriad of human institutions, conflicts, and systems? In Chess with My Grandfather,…
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“We Don't Care Broken Window Theory” by Zak MC is licensed under CC by SA 2.0 Old Acquaintance Having met by chance, they hugged. “Long time no see!” the men chorused. They caught up, exchanged telep…
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Photo by Tim Mossholder / Unsplash What is the difference between an o and an e in Spanish? For 51.06 percent of Argentina’s population, everything. I remember my father e…