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Special: Hanging at an open-air poetry slam in Leipzig

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Our LoveLy love columnist and I attended the LivelyriX open-air poetry slam at Leipzig's Panometer last week and had a very fun time; she wrote about it, I photographed, and you can see the result of our collaboration here.

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Light Breathing and Yet, Doubtful Longing

Interspersing it with his love of lit, our resident glocal bookworm today gives us a slice-of-life view into his weekly squash matches with a female friend, peppered with conversations on love and relationships, and related flashbacks: "It is strange, this awkward dance between men and women... What remains elusive is a sure outlook or a

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#GoingGlocal: “Thank you for your letter,” Part I (COLUMN DEBUT)

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The idea in this new column is for people to share their transnational cultural experiences that shaped and changed them in some important way; the debut, running as a series for the next five weeks, features a Leipzig novelist's relationship with all things Russian growing up in the old Karl-Marx-Stadt, and the friendship she built

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Reflections on Nietzsche and the Wisdom of the Body

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Our glocal book worm today gives us a body- and mind-exploring, soul-dissecting essay, talking about how he turned to Nietzsche to get through a serious illness connected with his own unresolved intense emotional turmoil.

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An appreciation of words from other languages

Our literature- and history-loving columnist today on LeipGlo reveals his favorite words in foreign languages, and how they evoke literary classics in his mind and some of the most basic and central feelings in his life.

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#WeeklyHaiku: Voyeur

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From a safe distance/
Watching her daily doings/
'Til she notices
(Ana Beatriz Ribeiro)

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