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  • By misadventure

    By misadventure

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    David Mitchell

    A short story about vertigo from the author of Utopia Avenue, Cloud Atlas and Black Swan Green. « Possibly a dare, or a rite of passage, hung in the air. Remember their age: most late teenagers are immortal. »

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  • Football is not football

    Football is not football

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    Simon Kuper

    How do literary movements arise? About thirty years ago, I watched one emerge out of nothing: the subgenre of « literary » football books and magazines. Not exactly the birth of modernism, but it still taught me something about how cultural transmission works within Europe.

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  • A kayak in Zierikzee

    A kayak in Zierikzee

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    George Blaustein

    Was a Dutch town founded by Inuits in the 9th century? On American discoveries of Europe.

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  • Stupid illnesses called « childhood »

    Stupid illnesses called « childhood »

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    Marina Jarre

    An excerpt from I padri lontani / Distant Fathers (1987), the rediscovered memoir of Marina Jarre, available in English translation from New Vessel Press.

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