Clik here to view.
Steven Tagle on Writing and Living in Greece
Steven Tagle speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about his essay “Notes on Looking Back,” which appears in The Common’s fall 2021 issue. Steven talks about writing this essay, originally in Greek,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
On the Very Real Dangers of Artificial Borders
Borders dot the perimeter of every country and are present wherever you are at any given moment, no matter how far you are from the actual line separating one nation from the next. Borders are physical...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Many Wars Within the Last Great War
Once it was enough to explain the Second World War as a military reaction by peace-loving nations to the imperial ambitions of Hitler and Mussolini in Europe and the Japanese military in East Asia. The...
View ArticleClik here to view.
What Rituals Across Cultures Reveal About the Human Condition
In a small rural village in mainland Greece, a group of people gather inside a large, ascetic-looking room. Other than some long wooden benches on either side and a small shrine holding a few icons...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Dana Sachs on the Volunteers at the Heart of the Worst Human Displacement...
Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Maternal Vertigo: Molly Lynch on Chaos, Childcare, and Civilizational Collapse
I didn’t plan to take my child to the ghost city. We went there spontaneously, on our way to the beach. We were in Greece, on the island of Kythira, and we’d been driving along a road when I saw the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How Ancient and Modern Greek Helps Us Make Sense of Greece Today
Late one night in 1951, two Englishmen were wandering downtown Athens after an evening drinking in its tavernas. Passing beneath the Acropolis, they decided to scale its rocky north side and sneak...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Imaginary Homelands: Lauren Markham Returns to Ancestral Landscapes for the...
My father, a second-generation Greek American, has always been a magnificent raconteur of the past. He likes to tell stories about all manner of things, but about our family—who we are and where we...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Opa! It’s All Greek to Me! Subverting the Tropes of Greek Culture in Media
As the only child of Greek parents, I grew up in America familiar with the well-meaning misunderstandings of my parents’ native land. Let me set the record straight: Greeks do not smash the china when...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Byronic Revolution of Che Guevara
Ernesto “Che” Guevera’s inventory of possessions upon his capture by Bolivian Special Forces on October 7, 1967—several maps of Vallegrande (hand-drawn, color pencil), twelve rolls of film...
View Article
