In English История Книги Общество Психология What We Can Learn (and Should Unlearn) From Albert Camus’s The Plague Liesl Schillinger on Catastrophe, Contagion, and the Human Condition Usually a question like this is theoretical: What would it be like to find your town, your state, your country, shut off from the rest of the world, its citizens confined to their homes, as a contagion spreads, infecting thousands, Written by Katia 2020-03-24 (Tue)2020-03-27 (Fri) Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
In English Post-Soviet Travel on the Turkmen-Kazakh Border Erika Fatland: “The whole world will soon be wearing jeans made in China.” The no-man’s land between Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan was wider than it looked. The sun shone down from a clear, blue sky, but there was a touch of winter in the desert air. On the other side of the barbed wire Written by Katia 2020-03-02 (Mon)2020-03-29 (Sun) Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
In English Языки Why We Love Untranslatable Words David Shariatmadari on the Allure of Undefinable Concepts Goya. A small word, but one that contains multitudes. It is one of those mythic beasts, the “untranslatables,” the foreign words that supposedly lack any equivalent in English. Lists of them spread virally online. Someone may have shared Written by Nadia 2020-01-17 (Fri)2020-04-09 (Thu) Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
