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A year without writing

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October 2020

Benoît Loiseau

Essay

October 2020

Shortly after the release of his controversial novel To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life in 1990, Hervé Guibert announced his retirement...

Interview

October 2020

In conversation: Jacob Bromberg and Zoë Hitzig

Jacob Bromberg

Zoë Hitzig

Interview

October 2020

Zoë Hitzig’s first book of poems, MEZZANINE, is animated by a prismatic intelligence that alternately focuses and refracts different...

Interview

October 2020

Interview with Sianne Ngai

Kevin Brazil

Interview

October 2020

Over the past fifteen years, Sianne Ngai has created a taxonomy of the aesthetic features of contemporary capitalism: the...

Interview

September 2020

Interview with Havi Carel

Ravi Ghosh

Interview

September 2020

On 19 March 2020, a video recorded by 39-year-old Tara Jane Langston from an intensive care bed in London’s...

Essay

September 2020

Three Finals

Orit Gat

Essay

September 2020

1998   In the summer of 2006, at a bar off Odéon, a girl I didn’t know drew a...

Interview

August 2020

Interview with Peter Gizzi

Matthew James Holman

Interview

August 2020

I first met Peter Gizzi in early March, when he gave a reading for about 150 people in a...

Interview with Gabriela Cabezón Cámara and Ariana Harwicz

Feature

August 2020

Silvia Rothlisberger

Feature

August 2020

Gabriela Cabezón Cámara and Ariana Harwicz are two leading figures in Argentinian and Latin American contemporary literature. I came across their work after their...

Essay

August 2020

Self-exposure: therapy and a pandemic

Cassandre Greenberg

Essay

August 2020

Thesis as cure   On 31 December 2019, I wrote in my diary that 2020 would be a Year...

Interview

August 2020

Interview with Ilya Kaminsky

Joe Dunthorne

Interview

August 2020

Twenty-five years after he and his parents fled Ukraine, Ilya Kaminsky went back to Odessa, the city of his...

Fear of a Gay Planet

Essay

Issue No. 28

Kevin Brazil

Essay

Issue No. 28

In Robert Ferro’s 1988 novel Second Son, Mark Valerian suffers from an unnamed illness afflicting gay men, spread by sex, and for which there...

 

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