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13 Dec 2020

Notes on The Fetishist (and Other Stories) by Michel Tournier

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(Minerva Press, 1992)     I.    This collection of short stories by Michel Tournier - originally published as Le Coq de Bruyère (1978) - is...
10 Oct 2015

On Dance as a Method of Becoming-Bird

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  Anorexic Ballerina  by Mexxkid  deviantart.com   What, ultimately, is dance, if not a method of becoming-bird; that is to say, ...
1 Jun 2014

Aly Buttons: On Her Lumpiness and Loveliness

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Photo by Nina Lin (2011) Not all young women can be stick thin like fashion models. But this doesn't mean that they...
10 Feb 2014

Stupeur et tremblements

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Cover of the Faber and Faber English  paperback edition (2004) In some ways, Amélie Nothomb's Stupeur et tremblements (1999),...
23 Mar 2013

The Post of Proper Names

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Recently, at a party, I overheard what seemed an undeniably bitchy but nonetheless interesting remark: when told by a young Austra...
15 Mar 2013

In Praise of the Swan Princess

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Like Zarathustra, I have always been a fan of girls who choose to devote themselves to the harsh discipline of classical dance: how...
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