A word for anyone who wonders whether they still belong Everyone who has ever sat in a txoko knows that the locked door is not the point. The locked door […]
Euskara Gara: Running for a Language, Running for a People
Every two years, something extraordinary sweeps across the Basque Country. Day and night, without pause, a wooden baton passes from hand to hand across more than two thousand kilometres of […]
Zarautz
Between Sea and Stone | Part 4: Modern Identity Between Sea and Stone · A Four-Part Series Modern Identity & the Wound of No Foundation Surf culture, great food, fierce […]
The Basque Library
The Basque Library — Stream Three The Basque Library Language & Literature Form & Thought Stream Three · Monthly long reads TheBasqueLibrary IX primary sources Nine long monthly posts, each […]
The City Named for a Saint Series· Part 4 of 4
Part 4: Beautiful Shell, Empty Center — The City Named for a Saint The City Named for a Saint · Series IV Part Four of Four · Donostia-San Sebastián Beautiful […]
The City Named for a Saint Series· Part 3 of 4
Part 3: Blood, Division, and the Long Shadow — The City Named for a Saint The City Named for a Saint · Series III Part Three of Four · Donostia-San […]
Sáenz de Oiza’s Buildings
Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oiza, 1950s–1990s Stream Three · The Basque Library · Entry 09 He said he was born in the Middle Ages. It was not precisely a metaphor. […]
Chillida’s Work
Eduardo Chillida, 1950s–2002 · Chillida Leku, Hernani Stream Three · The Basque Library · Entry 08 I did not belong to the white light of the Mediterranean. I belonged to […]
Oteiza’s Sculpture
Jorge Oteiza, 1950s–1959 · documented in Quousque Tandem…!, 1963 Stream Three · The Basque Library · Entry 07 There is a phrase Oteiza used to describe what he was trying […]
The Witches’ Advocate
Gustav Henningsen, 1980 Stream Three · The Basque Library · Entry 06 The sentence that brought Alonso de Salazar Frías to the attention of historians was recovered from the archive […]