Homemade

A couple of months ago I began the serial translation of a 1937 novella by Dutch writer Jan Jacob Slauerhoff called The Revolt of Guadalaj...

The whites could do as they pleased, take their women and cast them off again, teach their sons to be soldiers and to fight against them... ...

Between two oceans, but far from both, on a stony, infertile plain, where irregular mesas alternate with surly, grey-green fields, where the...

But sometimes the desire for something else—for someone from the outside, whoever that might be, whoever can upset the lifeless balance of b...

Sometimes, on the shores of a shipless sea, at the foot of an uninhabited and bald-scraped mountain range or in the middle of a parched an...

J.J. Slauerhoff was a ship's doctor-writer-translator (from Spanish, Portuguese, and French to Dutch) widely regarded as one of the grea...