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Benjamin Markovits
BENJAMIN MARKOVITS grew up in Texas, London and Berlin. He is the author of seven  novels: The Syme Papers, Either Side of Winter, Imposture, A Quiet Adjustment, Playing Days, Childish Loves and, most recently, You Don't Have to Live Like This. He has published essays, stories, poetry and reviews on subjects ranging from the Romantics to American sports in the Guardian, Granta, The Paris Review and The New York Times, among other publications. He lives in London and teaches creative writing at Royal Holloway, University of London.

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Immigrant Freedoms

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September 2015

Benjamin Markovits

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September 2015

My grandmother, known to us all as Mutti, caught one of the last trains out of Gotenhafen before the Russians came in 1945. She...

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December 2013

The Horror of Philosophy

Houman Harouni

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December 2013

An article published in this same venue opens with a grievance: ‘We lack the philosophers that we require for...

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May 2014

How Imagination Remembers

Maria Fusco

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May 2014

How imagination remembers is twofold, an enfolded act of greed and ingenuity. I believe these impulses to be linked...

Interview

January 2016

Interview with Marlene van Niekerk

Jan Steyn

Interview

January 2016

Marlene Van Niekerk is the foremost Afrikaans writer of her generation. She is a renowned poet, scholar, critic, and...

 

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