Ernest Hemingway thrilled to the tuna: to their size, and their strength. They are big as a grizzly bear, and he loved them for it. Most reach around 1.8 metres, but the largest outliers of the largest species, the Atlantic bluefin, can be twice that, and more than six hundred kilograms. In 1922, watching a … Read more
Visualise a place just a few hours from the city, where the beaches are sandy, the unbridled and the sunsets and the people are equally beautiful. Some version of this scene exists for many of us as something both real and imagined; dreamt up amid everyday drudgery, or bought and sold as a package deal. … Read more
THis snapshot is the only momento I have of a girl I was in love with when I was in my late teens. She is the smiling blond near the center of the photograph. When I say I was in love with her, I am speaking from later knowledge. At the time – the late … Read more
Mother was a smart, resourceful, attractive, tactless, competitive and practical person. She was what was called a girl with promise, and if times were different, she might have fulfilled that promise. She had wanted to write and paint, but instead she married and had children. She worked for a while before marriage but as soon … Read more
‘Because it stinks and because it is everywhere. Where will you find me a soul not filled with this kvas?’– Hryhorii Skovoroda, translated by George L. Kline and Taras D. Zakydalsky On February 24th I woke up around five o’clock in the morning. It wasn’t that something had woken me up, no, first I woke … Read more