Love
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The Passion of strangers: a philosophy of friendship
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Translated from the Catalan into English by Julie Wark A bond of free laws Friendship is the emotional bond that exists between people who are not united by other relationships — family, workplace, neighborly, nationality, and others — or subject to any of their purposes. Although it can be part of any of these spheres,…
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« Friendship is revolutionary » — Interview with Marina Garcés
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« I think reimagining relationships of distance and proximity is interesting in order to go beyond romantic ideas of neighbors. »
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The great schizophrenia
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Austrian writer Marlen Haushofer & the enemy hiding in those we have to love.
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Animal game
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A story about family. « ‘A woman of few words,’ he smiled. ‘How refreshing.’ »
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The size of longing
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On Jacob Israël de Haan’s Palestine and Arnold Zweig’s novel of post‑Zionist disillusionment
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Ice queens, sex machines
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Insofar as erotica can ever be about something, what is Russia-themed erotica about?
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What an animal isn’t
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Two vastly different books — one a picaresque tale, the other a dystopian meditation — both recount a transition from human to animal or from animal to human.
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From the knacker’s yard
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On the fallen animals loved by Heinrich von Kleist & Curzio Malaparte.
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Two palindromes
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→ Setting of the Sun at West Mountain / Puffing & panting ←→ Worm-eaten Rimbaud / Always knowing whom ←
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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. »
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On location
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Mission: Impossible and Eurocentric stunts, from Hollywood to Hong Kong. What does an action movie want to be?