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Parallel world
Photos of a Thai village that, due to coastal erosion, is slowly but surely giving way to the sea.
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Let’s enjoy the moon
Eight young women live in a college run by nuns in Rome; an excerpt from Alba de Céspedes’ There’s No Turning Back (Nessuno Torna Indietro).
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No longer at home
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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Sick men of Europe
King Leopold & Sultan Abdülhamid — a tale of two monarchs. «I’ve come to see them as twins of a kind: monarchs in bourgeois garb.»
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