Reading Elfriede Jelinek
In How to Read Elfriede Jelinek, Tim Parks is particularly withering on Greed, though he wonders how much fault lies with the translation.
In How to Read Elfriede Jelinek, Tim Parks is particularly withering on Greed, though he wonders how much fault lies with the translation.
Shredded Stasi spy documents — think The Lives of Others, but real life — are being pieced together by pattern-recognition software.
“Practically everything I know about writing I learned from music.”
Sex-trade-positive arguments aren’t unique to the Postfeminist era, however passionately a boatload of women’s studies professors may wish to lay claim to them. More than a hundred years ago, in 1900, the Everleigh sisters founded a high-class brothel with the aim of elevating the industry in Chicago. They believed prostitution was a viable career, one as worthy of respect as . . .
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