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Texting with … Vincenzo Latronico
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« Nobody will want to read my book if I come across as a guy who quotes Kant on Whatsapp »
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TWGGAWI™This article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Ripley and the enduring story of the white guy getting away with it. « Even with murder. Especially with murder! »
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The anarcho-astrologerThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Javier Milei, literarily considered
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StreuselkuchenThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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A story about coolness. « The phone rings. It is Jim Jarmusch, and he asks if I want to come over to his place. »
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SchwarzeneggerologyThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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On Arnold, action cinema & Übermenschlichkeit. « Arnold Schwarzenegger was action cinema’s Adamic man, alternately entering and exiting normal human time. »
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Flags & bonesThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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On Curzio Malaparte’s Europe — and ours. The midcentury novelist read anew, on war’s aftermath and transatlantic romance. What was, or is, « postwar Europe », anyway?
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Gerard Croiset & the adventure of the psychic detectiveThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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The clairvoyant Dutch grocer who charted the frontiers of parapsychology and lent a hand to the FBI. « Unbelievable but true! »
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A sangre fríaThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Fernanda Melchor’s prose hits you square in the face, but its lyricism works differently in Spanish. On Veracruzano modernism, lyrical slang, and worlds so new that style falls apart.
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How Americans edit sex out of my writingThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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What is editing? Two people who both lead a literary life — an augmented reality where the connections between existence and sentences are investigated daily — wage sensual war for the soul of the page.
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Football is not football
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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.