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  • The great schizophrenia

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

  • The business of men

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    On pregnancy’s bloody histories & its visceral fictions. A review of Trudy Dehue’s brilliant history of pregnancy research, « Egg, Fetus, Baby ».

  • The Barren Nothing-Place

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    On growing up in the creases of bilingual versions of T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land

  • The Mothers Grimm

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    What ties Gretel to her witch? Louise Glück’s poem Gretel in Darkness provides answers.

  • 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. »

  • Five uneasy pieces

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    How I stopped being an older brother (& other stories)

  • The pulverization of memory

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    Write your memoir in a hostile tongue. On Marina Jarre, from Latvia to Italy and back.

  • « When I was silent… » — Interview with Sulaiman Addonia

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    Stop! I am doing what they all do: presenting writer Sulaiman Addonia as one-who-has-suffered, because he grew up as a refugee. It is a problem of genre. Suffering has become…

  • An Unlucky Man

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    « He rolled down the window, went back to honking the horn, and started waving my underpants out the window. »

  • All is not vanity

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    Lose, delete, restore. What to remember when everything is always, forever, in a digital now?

  • Woman is space

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    « Space », or prostranstvo, is a key word for understanding the literary and philosophical history of Russia. Oksana Vasyakina’s Rana (Wound), a Siberian road novel, remakes the Russian landscape and the…

  • Stupid illnesses called « childhood »

    Stupid illnesses called « childhood »

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    An excerpt from I padri lontani / Distant Fathers (1987), the rediscovered memoir of Marina Jarre, available in English translation from New Vessel Press.