With Love - Online edition
Read My World asked ten writers from around the world to write letters of comfort in these times of crisis.
They reflect on a post pandemic age, search for beauty and solidarity and find intimacy in distance. Together they show the wide-ranging worldwide impact of this crisis. The letters are illustrated by international artists and printed in a unique way.
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“To write is to enter a dark space and find that you are not alone.”
Letter from New Orleans
Maurice Ruffin > -
“The swallow I raised on my wrist and which returned at my father’s funeral now taps at my window bearing his face.”
Letter from Haifa
Asmaa Azaizeh > -
“This period, while nerve-wracking for many of us, is, in my view, an opportunity to shift our focus to appreciate what really matters.”
Letter from Paris
Rokhaya Diallo > -
“What all the aunts and mothers never succeeded in doing, did happen through a microscopic piece of genetic material enveloped in a thin layer of fat. I baked roti’s last week.”
Letter from Paramaribo
Sharda Ganga > -
“Language has not come to me, but rather I have gone towards it, crawling like a small child, seeking it under things, corners, my fingers searching for sparks, for soft squishy things, for sound.”
Letter from Kuala Lumpur
Bernice Chauly > -
“Public remembering in Germany sometimes feels like a redemption story.”
Letter from Berlin
Max Czollek > -
“The social body is on the ground. I set myself the task of reanimating it.”
Letter from Rome
Donatella Della Ratta > -
“Perhaps to be silent is the closest one can come to realising what it means to be a human being, in the primitive, noble sense.”
Letter from Bruxelles
Sulaiman Addonia > -
“Did I spit out one extra frog from my mouth or did it stay inside me?”
Letter from Istanbul
Süreyyya Evren > -
“What if I told you that I could teach you a dance that you could dance forever?”
Letter from New York
Vladimir Lucien >