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Anniversaries

My Grandfather Arrived to the USA 100 Years Ago Today

March 15, 2023March 15, 2023 Carl Kruse

by Carl Kruse Exactly 100 years ago today my grandfather arrived to Ellis Island, New York, having left 12 days earlier from Hamburg on a ship called “THURINGIA.” He was […]

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Books

Breaking the Canon Of Western Lit

February 21, 2023February 21, 2023 Carl Kruse

by Hazel Anna Rogers for the Carl Kruse blog Shakespeare, Homer, Conrad, Steinbeck, Lee, Twain. We know these names. We have known these names since before we knew the books […]

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A Quick Trip to Cahors

January 25, 2023January 25, 2023 Carl Kruse

by Hazel Anna Rogers for the Carl Kruse Blog My mamie is a tiny woman. No one knows why she’s so very small, but some have suggested that her mother […]

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Enlightment

One Year After

December 19, 2022December 19, 2022 Carl Kruse

I had to kill myself to be born again. Cabo da Roca, the western point of Europe. On 20th September 2021, I took off with three bags and fled Italy. […]

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Films

Brett Morgen’s “Moonage Daydream”

November 25, 2022November 25, 2022 Carl Kruse

by Hazel Anna Rogers for the Carl Kruse Blog It is that the world is saturated, without respite nor release. It is that the doors, while open where they once […]

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Travel

A Good Night

October 24, 2022October 24, 2022 Carl Kruse

by Hazel Anna Rogers for the Carl Kruse Blog Stupidly, He and I had rejected the idea of bringing a tent with us on the basis of weight. Our bags […]

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Enlightment

Lisbon Diaries From an Erasmus Girl

September 28, 2022September 28, 2022 Carl Kruse

by Asia Leonardi for the Carl Kruse Blog Day one wasn’t the best. It must have been the tiredness of the plane, or perhaps the immediate awareness of being in […]

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Poems

Amanda Gorman and the Power of Fame

August 29, 2022August 29, 2022 Carl Kruse

by Hazel Anna Rogers for the Carl Kruse Blog EDITORIAL NOTE: The opinions expressed by Hazel are her own, and may not reflect the opinions of Carl Kruse or of […]

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Folklore

The Mandrake: Between Myth and Truth

July 26, 2022August 29, 2022 Carl Kruse

By Asia Leonardi for the Carl Kruse Blog Since ancient times, the Mandrake has been surrounded by legend, myth, alchemical rites and black magic. Over the centuries, various qualities have […]

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Sea Shanties

July 9, 2022July 9, 2022 Carl Kruse

by Asia Leonardi for the Carl Kruse Blog “… I soon got used to this singing, for the sailors never touched a rope without it. Sometimes, when no one happened […]

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Curiosities from the Theater of the Absurd

June 12, 2022June 13, 2022 Carl Kruse

Samuel Beckett’s Self-conscious Game by Fraser Hibbitt for the Carl Kruse Blog A performance should appear effortless and unscripted. The long hours of practice transmuted into a rare vision is […]

Books

Reflections at The British Library

May 2, 2022July 25, 2022 Carl Kruse

by Fraser Hibbitt for the Carl Kruse Blog A friend told me that the tube line that runs into St. Pancras station narrowly misses the foundation of the British Library. […]

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