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Thursday, June 4, 2026

La fin du Moderne

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Il semble absurde d'appeler la période que nous vivons «moderne». D'ailleurs, non seulement nous parlons de tem...
Friday, May 29, 2026

SERIES OF FIRSTS: When did humans start cooking their food?

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  It's unlikely that nuclear families as depicted in this  illustration existed at the time, but the drawing is sweet! Evidence sugges...
Wednesday, May 27, 2026

Humans, free will, and genetics

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    As I read Isaiah Berlin’s analysis of the relationship between Romanticism and Kant (there is one), I find myself thinking about natur...
Wednesday, May 13, 2026

Jamaica without concessions

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I was really there to hear Jamaica Kincaid.  Her prose awes me.  So powerful and fluid.  While there are few dialogues, her texts have a ...
Wednesday, May 6, 2026

The age gap in Hollywood movies: not happy ever after

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41 year difference between De Niro and his life partner Chen The average age gap between the male and female leads in Hollywood is 15 year...
Wednesday, April 8, 2026

Mapuche, un fantasme masculin rêvé par Caryl Férey

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D'accord, l'utilisation du langage dans Mapuche est originale et la trame du polar est pas mal ficelée. Mais. Ce roman est u...
Monday, December 15, 2025

Natalie Palamides offers herself in sacrifice in "Weer" at the Cherry Lane Theater

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This is not a review. Why not? Because it's fast and furious, and a review (I've written them too) takes time and thinking and...
Friday, July 11, 2025

Smurfette and the Eternal Gender Gap (Now with Rihanna!)

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A more simpaticx queer smurf Back in 1959, Belgian comic artist Peyo gave the world the  Smurfs—those little blue communitarians who all l...
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Wednesday, February 26, 2025

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  Safe House at St. Ann’s Warehouse: A Safe House that turns into a Doll House Walking into Safe House at St. Ann’s Warehouse, I didn’t k...
Monday, June 3, 2024

The obsession with the double: doppelgängers, Jekyll and Hide, Frankenstein, and more

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The double as a literary motif has obsessed writers since the beginning of Romanticism:  Poe, Hoffman, Maupassant, Dostoevsky and ...
Thursday, October 12, 2023

Are aliens just a projection of our subconscious?

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  Is it egocentric to believe in aliens? Our planet is peopled by thinking creatures, therefore we imagine the same of other planets. Alie...
Saturday, April 25, 2020

Paris France by Gertrude Stein is infuriating, simplistic and ... a lot of fun!

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Gertude Stein's Paris France is infuriating, arrogant, simplistic, and ... a lot of fun to read. Her style, bare and repetitive l...
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