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« Even if you feel at home in time and space today, you know that you are already in mourning for the future loss of everything that is beautiful. This is the first time humanity is mourning in the future tense. »
« In order to survive amidst this bleak existence, the Mediterranean people established two distinct strategies: hopelessness or salvation. Some embraced hopelessness as the best way to approach the absurd condition of human life. »
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Austrian writer Marlen Haushofer & the enemy hiding in those we have to love.
On Gustave Caillebotte’s Impressionist butts.
Two novelists (one Swiss, one Spanish) sign up for agricultural jobs.
A review of Hangman: A Novel by Maya Binyam. «Returning home rests … as the thematic cornerstone of African and African-diasporic literature.»
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