Helen Zaltzman
Saturday 27 March 2021 : What to do to stick it to the powers that be? Send your message through something they really care about: cake. In Buenos Aires, local tour...
Friday 12 March 2021 : "Sometimes I've heard people talk about losing a child and people say it's like losing a limb. And as someone who's lost both things, I just...
Thursday 25 February 2021 : In their podcasts Mija and Moonface, Lory Martinez and James Kim create autobiographical fiction in multiple languages. There are a few...
Sunday 14 February 2021 : St Valentine's name may nowadays be all over the romance-related merch for 14 February, but he was also the patron saint of beekeepers,...
Thursday 24 December 2020 : To round off the year, here are some choice cuts from the Allusionist vault of interesting things that guests said that there wasn’t room...
Monday 14 December 2020 : The usual canon of Christmas songs may not really fit people's moods in this year 2020, when I'm not sure a lot of us are feeling all that...
Saturday 28 November 2020 : In Australia, there were hundreds, perhaps thousands, of languages. Until English arrived. Rudi Bremer and Karina Lester talk about the...
Tuesday 10 November 2020 : Fill your lungs and get ready to shout out some profane answers: it’s the Swearlusionist Swearalong Quiz! Every answer is a swear word....
Saturday 10 October 2020 : Celebrity used to mean a solemn occasion; X factor was algebraic; and fame was a huge terrifying Godzilla-like beast with many many...
Monday 28 September 2020 : The word for ‘ghostwriter’ in French is a racist slur. How did THAT come about? And what word could French-speakers use instead? Ngofeen...
Monday 14 September 2020 : In 2014, a seemingly trivial and boring incident at the bank propelled me down a linguistic road via medieval werewolves, Ms Marvel and...
Friday 28 August 2020 : This is the Tranquillusionist, in which I, Helen Zaltzman, quell anxiety and calm brain frenzies by replacing your interior monologue with...
Thursday 30 July 2020 : It’s great when you coin a phrase that really resonates with people, right? Until they start using it for businesses and ventures that are...
Tuesday 14 July 2020 : The Yiddish word for ‘black’ is, in certain uses, a slur. So Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell, Arun Viswanath and Jonah Boyarin teamed up...
Friday 03 July 2020 : When the Europeans arrived in Aotearoa New Zealand, as well as guns, stoats and Christianity, they brought ideas of cisgender monogamous...
Monday 15 June 2020 : The Scots language didn’t have much of an LGBTQ+ lexicon. So writer and performer Dr Harry Josephine Giles decided to create one. Find...
Saturday 16 May 2020 : Twenty years ago, a 1939 poster printed by the British government with the words ‘Keep Calm and Carry On’ turned up in a second-hand...
Monday 13 April 2020 : This is the Tranquillusionist, in which I, Helen Zaltzman, in the interests of temporarily trying to stop that feeling where you think your...
Saturday 04 April 2020 : This is the Tranquillusionist, in which I, Helen Zaltzman, for the purposes of calming a frazzled brain, read the winners of Best In Show at...
Sunday 22 March 2020 : This is the Tranquillusionist, in which I, Helen Zaltzman, for the purposes of quelling anxiety and stress and sleeplessness, read the...
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Helen Zaltzman
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