On July 26, I turned forty, which is the kind of birthday that makes people ask how you feel in the tone normally reserved for medical test results. I felt exactly like myself, which was
La 18 ani, ILINCA reprezenta România la Eurovision. Aproape un deceniu mai târziu, nu mai pare interesată să reprezinte pe nimeni înainte de a se reprezenta pe sine. Între yodel, muzică lăutărească, pop, metal, vulnerabilitate
În 2008, după ce îl ceruse ani la rând, Herta Müller a primit în sfârșit dosarul ei de la Securitate. Lipseau ani întregi. Fabrica în care lucrase, locul unde fusese hărțuită zilnic până când
I don’t know what this month was, exactly. A literary buffet? A punishment? A neurological experiment I conducted on myself without signing the consent form? At some point, while moving from Can Xue’s dissociative love
Sunt edituri pe care le recunoști după cotor și edituri pe care le recunoști după ton. ZYX Books face parte, clar, din a doua categorie. În trei ani și 65 de titluri, a reușit ceva
This was an odd little month for me. Terribly unfamiliar. Administratively, I was – for the first time in 12 years – not working. At all. My own little slice of sabbatical – I think
Life works in mysterious ways. But you know who else does? Me. Because I did not set out to read only books written by women and about women this month. I wish I could tell
Ugh, February was such a bummer. The kind of month where my headaches weren’t dramatic enough to justify total system failure, but persistent enough to feel like a personality trait. I discovered, quite unintentionally, that
January has a very specific kind of grief. A patient one. It’s always felt less like a month and more like a mental state. Like standing barefoot in a cold room, holding last year’s memories
I started this little ritual in January with one fuzzy idea in mind: that if I kept track of what I read every month, I might learn something – about books, about myself, about how