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  • Madame Blueberry’s insatiable want

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    Madame Bovary leaps into a modern time, a new medium and another biological kingdom.

  • Am Boden

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    A story about eternity. « A fully glued-on carpet is an uncompromising rejection of the future, a denial of death. »

  • Trouble at work and home while my son is abroad

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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. »

  • Forget your darlings

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    On memory palaces, medieval and modern. A medieval woman’s life would not have taken the form of a straight line.

  • The Mass of Mies

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    « Less is more »? The scale and shape of his body gave the architect Mies van der Rohe an unequaled weight and architectural authority.

  • Doom is in the details

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    Floods, hailstorms, plague, fire, children lost on a mountain or trapped for years in a ruined villa. On the stories of Adalbert Stifter.

  • Perhentian Sunrise

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    A story about romance. « The eve of a suitor’s arrival, bigger than Christmas or birthday, I tell you. »

  • Aarhus City Hall is a Gesamtkunstwerk

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    « The office of the future » is all well and good, but what can be learned from the offices of the past that have sustained? Like: Aarhus City Hall.

  • Ballad of a Homburg hat

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    On racial metonymy and the art of misidentification. (Meanwhile: has a glass of beer ever been more crisply and deliciously depicted? Has the froth of a European pilsner ever looked so delectable?)

  • Curtain call

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    An iron curtain makes a powerful canvas. Images from Sven Johne & Falk Haberkorn’s Aus Sicht des Archivs, documenting life in the former East Germany in the 1990s.