culture
The Part Right After the Last Part You Said
How to lose your place without losing the conversation.
culture
culture
A Year of Living in France - 3 stories, 6 months apart
Three pieces from the last year on relocating, staying, and the part nobody really prepares you for.
Leaving the US
The Aggregator: the Best of March
What got read. What lingered. What I liked.
culture
Some Cities Have Markets Every Weekend. Most of France Doesn’t.
How we built a home, what to know, and where to start
american living in france
We Live Here Now (An Update)
Routines, reinvention, and the strange comfort of becoming a data point
culture
Quinqui: The Word That Traveled from Hardware to Street Crime
Flea markets, quinquis, and how language carries a country’s history with it
culture
“Me Cago en Dios”: The Phrase You’re Not Supposed to Understand
In northern Spain, what sounds like blasphemy is just everyday speech—a reminder sometimes, translation will only get you so far
Soundtrack
Music That Defined an Era: Quinqui Rumba and the Sound of 1970s Spain
A playlist from 1970s Spain with stories from the edges before they were softened, exported, and repackaged
Oddities
A Parrot Became a Local Legend. Then It Died.
Inside the bizarre true story of Ravachol, Spain’s most infamous bird
culture
Nothing is Wrong. Nothing Works.
What it feels like to live in a place that wasn’t built for you
culture
What a Walk in Asturias Taught Me About Writing
Walks in Spain, vermouth bars, and the strange way ideas show up
culture
Lyon, 1850–1910: Doors, Industry, and an Unsettled Republic
Stability, Industry, and Memory in Late 19th-Century Lyon