December 15, 2015
COP21: In the hands of its people alive right now lies the fate of the earth and all her creatures for the rest of time.
Democracy works but democracy is hard work. It demands involvement from the entire civil society in order to make its way. This is not just my understanding but is that […]
November 30, 2015
A Moveable Funeral
Sales of Ernest Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast spiked in the wake of the Paris terror attacks. The media has framed it as a book that captures the dream of Paris, […]
November 19, 2015
Moby-Dick Out Loud on the Way to the Paris Climate Conference
By Karen Malpede I’ve been reading Moby-Dick out loud at night, slowly, with my partner. We were on chapter ninety-three–in which the castaway Pip loses sanity after being left adrift alone […]
September 25, 2015
Is Paris Still Paris?
“In a beautiful turn of phrase, Hugo von Hofmannsthal called [this city] ‘a landscape built of pure life.’ And at work in the attraction it exercises on people is the […]
January 10, 2014
Illustration of the Greek Concept of Fate
During the sack of Troy, having danced with the others around the wooden Horse and now lying gored in Priam’s palace, Paris had a vision in which he relived his […]