Departure of a Dignitary from Middelburg, by Adriaen van de Venne, 1615. Rijksmuseum, D. Franken bequest, Le Vésinet.

Migration

Volume XIV, Number 3 | April / May 2022

Miscellany

“To bring rain or warm weather,” Micmac storyteller Pierrot Clemeau told an American ethnologist in 1897, “talk of whales or relate a legend describing the migration of the birds and the alternation of the seasons.”

Exile lacks the grandeur, the majesty, of expatriation.

—Bharati Mukherjee, 1999