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Rafaël Newman
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"This year, it seems, rather than forbidding mourning, my valediction has itself been forbidden: by my mourning the world in which we are becoming all too much at home, and in which serenity, courage, and especially the gift of wisdom seem all too distant hopes."
Invita Minerva - 3 Quarks Daily
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December 29, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Some of the best new music is 100 years old.
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A Breastbone Harp - 3 Quarks Daily
by Rafaël NewmanSome of the best new music is 100 years old. On October 21, 1925, the Anglo-American composer and violist Rebecca Clarke presented a program
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December 1, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Kommt morgen zahlreich, ich bin auch dabei und werde vorlesen...
November 4, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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On echoes of German philology as antifascist protest in Heather Cox Richardson's "Letters from an American"
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Lingua Trumpii Imperii - 3 Quarks Daily
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November 4, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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"Religion as ethics: or rather, ethics—a code of conduct in communal human affairs—codified as what we have come to call religion, but which, in our increasingly secular world, might better (and more hopefully) be termed politics."
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Finding My Religion - 3 Quarks Daily
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October 10, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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On Proto-indo-European. And uncles. And Proto-Indo-European uncles.
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Captain Head - 3 Quarks Daily
by Rafaël NewmanAt the University of Toronto one winter term in the mid-1980s I took an undergraduate course on classical philology. The instructor was Hugh
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September 12, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Caspar Battegay schaut über den Tellerrand
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Essen von oben
Digitale Bilder von Essen sind allgegenwärtig, sie übernehmen vielfältige kommunikative Funktionen. Als visuelle Markierungen von Identität, Erinnerung und Zugehörigkeit sind sie Teil eines ironischen...
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September 6, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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On 15 September in Zurich I will be reading my poetry in a bilingual event with Hugo Ramnek.
Kommt zahlreich!
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THEATER STOK "Lyrik im STOK" - Theater Stok
Montag 15. SeptemberBeginn: 19.30 UhrEintrittspreise: 25.- reduziert 20.- Kontakt: Tel. 044 271 20 64 [email protected]ürffnung und Bar: 19.00 Uhr, Tel. 044 251 22 80Weitere Informationen: www....
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September 4, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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On the persistence of the I
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J'accusative - 3 Quarks Daily
by Rafaël NewmanLanguage changes. And I’m fine with that, particularly since it wouldn’t make any difference if I weren’t. I have made my peace with the
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August 22, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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Oh, Happy Future! - 3 Quarks Daily
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August 1, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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"I have been thinking about what it means to be a curator, of the many honors Frehner and Zeller have done that august but occasionally misunderstood designation, and of their expansion of its scope—beyond museology and the visual arts."
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Ulyssees on the Limmat - 3 Quarks Daily
by Rafaël NewmanZurich was James Joyce’s home on several occasions. The writer’s first sojourn there, in 1904, was brief: when the prospect of a job teaching
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June 16, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Dieses Anliegen ist mir sehr wichtig – bitte unterschreiben & weiterleiten: act.campax.org/petitions/ga...
GAZA NOUS REGARDE
Le génocide en cours exige des prises de position.
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June 5, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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"The ideal of the Pope as a benevolent, forgiving, unconditionally loving, universalist, non-sexual father…answers a powerful need, despite (or perhaps on account of) the systemic violence of the real existing patriarchal order."

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Papal Bull - 3 Quarks Daily
by Rafaël NewmanOn September 29, 1978, Albino Luciani, who had been elected Pope John Paul I just 33 days earlier, on August 26, 1978, was found dead in his
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May 25, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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Am 25. Mai präsentieren wir im KVFM in Frankfurt Gedichte Margarete Susmans, von diversen Komponist*innen vertont, von Alice Lackner gesungen und von Jascha Nemtsov am Klavier begleitet. Ich darf das Programm moderieren und zu den Texten vortragen.

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Im Feld ein Mädchen singt
Informationsseite zum Publikationsprojekt rund um die Vertonungen der Gedichte der deutsch-jüdischen Dichterin, Denkerin und Deuterin Margarete Susman.
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May 14, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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On the upcoming federal election in Canada, social democracy and the New Paganism
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Second Nature - 3 Quarks Daily
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April 22, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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New book on the Bauernkrieg
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Malcolm Gaskill · We’re eating goose! When Peasants Made War
The German Peasants’ War was an expression of a novel political sensibility and has informed every major European...
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April 12, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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Aus gegebenem Anlass
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Next Year in Prenzlauer Berg - 3 Quarks Daily
by Rafaël NewmanBy a quirk of the calendars, Passover, the annual commemoration of the flight from bondage, is precisely coterminous this year with Academic
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April 12, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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Thinking about this wonderful Wahlzürcherin as I prepare my remarks for a concert of her poems set to music, next month in Frankfurt
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Homeland. Homeless. Homesick. - 3 Quarks Daily
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April 11, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Let the healing begin, eh?
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With Apologies to Canada - 3 Quarks Daily
by Mark Harvey
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April 11, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Couple days late but never mind: my tribute to the great John Prine, who died five years ago this past Monday
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Pass Me All Around - 3 Quarks Daily
by Rafaël Newman
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April 10, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Heute vor 4 Jahren: l’❤️ à ☠️
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L'Amour à Mort!
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April 10, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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In which I compose a bilingual limerick triptych
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Un amour de confédéralistes - Bestiaire Intime
Un amour de confédéralistes Eine Dame mit Bildung in Biel Schrieb un monsieur an, der ihr gefiel: « J’aimerais que tu viennes Demain souper à Bienne » – In der Hoffnung, dies führe zum Ziel. Or ce ...
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April 10, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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Anyone for a nosh?

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A Montreal Bagel In Zurich - 3 Quarks Daily
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April 9, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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On Ukrainian cinema

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Watching the War from a Rooftop - 3 Quarks Daily
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April 9, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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A private concert: Besuch der Lieder in Zurich

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A-Ha! - 3 Quarks Daily
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April 9, 2025 at 11:43 AM