A Style Guide to the Russian North
Having taken a brief inventory of my journal, I realised, with a touch of chagrin,…
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A Guide to Winged Angelology
This wooden cherub of nineteenth-century vintage once adorned a house transported from the abandoned settlement…
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An Etymological Dessert from Persian Apples
On Ribs, Heroes, and the Surprising Geography of Language Summer is upon us, bringing with…
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Celestial Etymology
As a recent discourse happily brought us to matters of the firmament, it seems a…
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The Secrets of the Powder Box
In the Museum of Almaty, amidst a display dedicated to the city in the latter…
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What Does the Torsyq Keep?
In the Museum of Almaty, we stumbled upon an artifact I had never heard of…
