Date Archives May 2017

On the violence of borders

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Ceuta wall

I recently visited Ceuta, a piece of the north African coast that belongs to Spain and is hence part of “Europe”. It was a very strange and disturbing experience to cross that border so easily just by showing my British passport, when many people with different-coloured passports die trying to do the same thing. Here’s a photo I took of the… Read More

The Russian Window by Dragan Velikic: Review

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When I was in Belgrade a while back, I bought four novels in a wonderful bookshop on the main street, Knez Mihailova. They were all literary novels by Serbian writers, translated into English. One thing they all had in common was a lack of plot. In literary fiction in any language, of course, plot can be less central than it is in… Read More