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  • A Madman’s Tale

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    « I guess it all began, » he said, « because of that weak-headedness my father sometimes had. It just rubbed me the wrong way. »

  • Madame Blueberry’s insatiable want

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

  • The great schizophrenia

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

  • There was once a woman who

    There was once a woman who

    A surprisingly rhyming excerpt from Inger Christensen’s novella « Natalja’s Stories ».

  • Last resort

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    On Dora Kellner, Walter Benjamin and the biography of a hotel

  • 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. »

  • Beamer, Dressman, Bodybag

    Beamer, Dressman, Bodybag

    On the unexpected joys of Denglisch, Berlinglish & global Englisch. « My own language, made camp. »

  • 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. »

  • No man’s land

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    On Edda Mussolini & fashionable fascism. Can a woman be dangerous yet powerless?

  • How Americans edit sex out of my writing

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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.

  • On learning to write again

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    Ramallah, downtown, fifth floor. The phone rings and the caller’s number appears on the screen. It’s an unknown number. And yet a call that comes at this hour must be answered.