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Paris

  • ~ Potpourri: Paris

    ~ Potpourri: Paris

    Copi channels his fascination with lowlives, queer people, immigrants and other outcasts

  • Men in the off hours

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    On Gustave Caillebotte’s Impressionist butts.

  • The inborn germ

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    Why death? Who or what dies? Philosophers tend not to explain, but to justify. When do such questions become biological questions? Does it help?

  • When the world makes rags of us

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    He spoke of painting like a starving man speaks of food. On Józef Czapski, Memories of Starobielsk and the art of observation.

  • Flags & bones

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    On Curzio Malaparte’s Europe — and ours. The midcentury novelist read anew, on war’s aftermath and transatlantic romance. What was, or is, « postwar Europe », anyway?

  • All is not vanity

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

  • A breast is a breast is a breast

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    To contemplate Pompeii is to contemplate archeology in its most extreme form, framed by the wish not only for discovery, but for resurrection.