Nadya Bondoreff

Nadya Bondoreff is a writer, English teacher, fledgling musician, failed rock star, and eternally-curious expat who likes to cause scandal by liberally criticizing her home country, Canada.  "Nationalism is for the feeble-minded, and Canada is an overrated scam" is her latest sentiment, essentially torching all her remaining bridges back in the Great White North while starting endless conversations in her chosen home of Berlin, Germany.  She has taught English in Costa Rica, Brazil, and South Korea, and still can't believe she hasn't been to Japan.  When not admiring all the fine art Europe has to offer, Nadya is a writer and editor for a grassroots documentary site at www.altdoc.ca, as well as her very own website, a showcase for her multidisciplinary dabbling, at www.nadyabe.com.  She has had pieces published in various online magazines, doesn't understand or write poetry, is on the first draft of her first nonfiction book, and has realized far too late that becoming independently wealthy in Berlin is virtually impossible. 

Content Posted by Nadya Bondoreff

Treasures of Faith, Trauma of the Faithful

The practical business of the Church consists in instilling by every conceivable means into the mass of one hundred millions of the Russian people those extinct relics of beliefs for which there is nowadays no kind of justification, "in which scar...


Fashioning Fashion (With an Unfashionable Passion)

Among the myriad tragedies that plagued the twentieth century--none of which I will address here--it would not be a fallacy to state that the decline of fashion is among them.  In fact, despite us being a mere dozen years into the twenty-first cen...


Pathways to Enlightenment: Learning from “Roads of Arabia”

I was going to construct an introduction to this article in which I mused with great self-deprecation about my embarrassing lack of knowledge regarding most things concerning the Middle East.  The plan was to reveal my total ignorance towards that...


Death Preparations

Of Final Things: Death and Burial in Mark Brandenburg 1500 - 1800 Prior to my departure for Berlin, a good friend asked me if I had prepared a will, or at the very least, some kind of official document detailing my “death instructions” if somethin...


Katsura Imperial Villa - Photographs by Ishimoto Yasuhiro

The aesthetics of Japanese culture--be it architecture, cuisine, fashion, or ceramics--are so immediately identifiable, one doesn’t need to have spent any time in that part of the world in order to develop an opinion (or even a feeling) about the ...