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

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

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

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 ...

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...

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

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...

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

  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...

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

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

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