March 2017 - Andrew Blackman

Travel

Alternative lives on different tracks

If you live in the U.S., you’ll find my article on living a nomadic life in today’s Wall Street Journal. Or everyone can read…

woman hauling firewood

Travel

Happy International Women’s Day? Not in Morocco

I’d like to wish all of you a Happy International Women’s Day! Let’s all do what we can to #BeBoldForChange. I would really…

Reading

Review of Sworn Virgin by Elvira Dones

Did you know that there’s an Albanian tradition in which, if there are no male heirs, a woman can choose to become a…

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David Schreiber on The Sense of an Ending, explained: “Is it too late to comment? I’ve just read the book and didn’t like it one bit, with its endless…” Nov 22, 10:24
wadholloway on Borges Marathon, Part 24: The End: “I like reading about other people’s experience of reading, even, as in this case I don’t know the author and…” Nov 22, 00:43
Stefanie on Borges Marathon, Part 24: The End: “Yeah, that’s a tough one! While it might not have had the same resonance without knowledge of the allusions, it…” Nov 21, 19:29
Andrew Blackman on Borges Marathon, Part 24: The End: “Yes, it’s difficult when we’re coming from a very different cultural context, isn’t it? So much of reading is about…” Nov 21, 15:33
Andrew Blackman on Borges Marathon, Part 24: The End: “Yes! I’m reading the Penguin edition of Collected Fictions, translated by Andrew Hurley, and it comes with a good set…” Nov 21, 15:28