Important
The Three Body Solution
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The Chinese Communist Party embraces the sci-fi hit The Three Body Problem.
The business of men
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On pregnancy’s bloody histories & its visceral fictions. A review of Trudy Dehue’s brilliant history of pregnancy research, « Egg, Fetus, Baby ».
Neanderthal aesthetics
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Rachel Kushner’s Creation Lake, reviewed. «If we discovered a Neanderthal novel, would we be worthy of it?»
Interjections
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Non-words for the remembered & unremembered violence of Bulgarian labor camps.
The Barren Nothing-Place
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On growing up in the creases of bilingual versions of T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land
Needle & pen
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Jane Austen valued fashion as an intrinsic part of one’s character — whether in her own life or in a novel.
Without Cause
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« The exercise here is of a philosopher who would review the AI Act as a text. »