How Many Selves Fit Inside a Language?
About the selves we become in other languages, and the fear of losing what we were.
Why don’t I write in Spanish?
I’ve been circling that question for years. I thought I was looking for a tidy explanation—something about grammar, or habit, or the way English took over my work. But questions have a way of slipping from the intellectual to the emotional, especially when you follow them honestly.
A few weeks ago, I wrote a letter to Buenos …
