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Love

  • A kiss like a fish in the mouth

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    My schoolgirl passion for Julio Cortázar brings me to a Montparnasse grave with one husband and two wives.

  • Fathers  & Sons

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    For some of the men in Poshtarov’s photo series, it was the first time they held hands in years – even decades.

  • The Passion of strangers: a philosophy of friendship

    The Passion of strangers: a philosophy of friendship

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    Friendship is the only stable social relationship for which « paperwork » has not been invented.

  • « Friendship is revolutionary » — Interview with Marina Garcés

    « 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. »

  • The great schizophrenia

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    Austrian writer Marlen Haushofer & the enemy hiding in those we have to love.

  • To grieve, to pine

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    On Norwegian writer Vigdis Hjorth’s funerals & infatuations.

  • Animal game

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    A story about family. « ‘A woman of few words,’ he smiled. ‘How refreshing.’ »

  • The size of longing

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    On Jacob Israël de Haan’s Palestine and Arnold Zweig’s novel of post‑Zionist disillusionment

  • Ice queens, sex machines

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    Insofar as erotica can ever be about something, what is Russia-themed erotica about?

  • 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.

  • From the knacker’s yard

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    On the fallen animals loved by Heinrich von Kleist & Curzio Malaparte.

  • Two palindromes

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