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Solitary sailing, and the philosophy thereof: What sort of writing is possible when the mind is at sea and so entirely occupied and swaddled?
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Hans Ulrich Obrist interviews French-Algerian writer and philosopher Hélène Cixous.
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The remarkable diary of third-century martyr Perpetua — a young mother sentenced to death — shows a soft, milky mother-body resisting a military-industrial empire.
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A broad cast of characters who almost all speak to a solitary woe. This is Europe? Ben Judah depicts a continent of islands, hollowed of associational life.
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A story about living. « I have a family and I have a job and I have a teaching gig, and these things have me. »
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On Havelok the Dane, medieval air & the world’s largest wind farm
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On two tales of racial metamorphosis, salted or sugared, one hundred years apart.
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An excerpt from I padri lontani / Distant Fathers (1987), the rediscovered memoir of Marina Jarre, available in English translation from New Vessel Press.