How to Be a Good Savage
THE FIRST WOMAN TO publish a book of poetry in her native Zoque language, Mikeas Sánchez is not only a trailblazer and a fierce advocate for preserving her Indigenous language but also Continue reading
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Spring Has Left Us
ON A THURSDAY MORNING in April, I walk into the Sunder Nursery Gardens in Delhi’s city center. These outings are a customary habit, instilled by my father when we were growing Continue reading
Translators of the Past
EVERY SHAMAN IN MONGOLIA has their own translator. My colleague and translator, Erdene, tells me that every shaman speaks their own private language: Part ancient Mongolian. Part tongues. Part something else Continue reading
The Man Who Listened to Plants
IF A PARENT WORRIES FOR THEIR CHILD, what do the childless worry about? This is not a question that has been put to me yet, but it is one that I Continue reading
Refusing to Leave
SOMEONE I LOVED ONCE TOLD ME that the pigeons were the best part of Yasujirō Ozu’s Late Spring. He pronounced it, in that gentle way of his, to be a perfect Continue reading