contemporary literature
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The Grit and Heart of ‘Shuggie Bain’
‘Shuggie Bain’, Douglas Stuart’s 2020 Booker Prize winner is a dark and heavy story which will leave you emotionally drained. But the story has a…
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Mircea Cărtărescu’s “Nostalgia”
“I will write not to construct a story, but to exorcise an obsession” (Mircea Cărtărescu, ‘The Twins’, one of the stories in ‘Nostalgia’)
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2024 – The Year of the Books Which Have Piled Up
In 2024, my reading resolution is to go through all the books which have piled up over the last years.
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Mavis Gallant – How to Write with Depth
I have lived in writing, like a spoonful of water in a river. This is how the Canadian author Mavis Gallant describes her writing life,…
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Life Ceremony – Not for the Faint of Heart
Sayaka Murata, ‘Life Ceremony’, Translated from the Japanese by Ginny Tapley Takemori, Granta, July 2022.
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Creative by AI
In Ian McEwan’s ‘Machines Like Me’ we see what happens when the artificial human is more human than the human.
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Defamiliarization by AI
In ‘Klara and the Sun’, an AI is telling us about her world, what she sees and how she sees it. We can “translate” Klara’s…
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