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The Flow of Time: Lockdown, Day 9

The flow of the Ill had often taken me in its current. I had spent so long wandering along its banks and along the cobbled paths away from Petite France that I had rarely explored the local vicinity of my … Continue reading

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How Pale the Winter Has Made Us by Adam Scovell

 Novelist, critic and film-maker, Adam Scovell is a prodigious young talent. In How Pale the Winter Has Made Us he introduces us to Isabelle, a young British academic adrift and alone in Strasbourg. She overwinters in this rainy corner of … Continue reading

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The House: The Poetics of Space

A house constitutes a body of images that give mankind proofs or illusions of stability.  We are constantly re-imagining its reality: to distinguish all these images would be to describe the soul of the house; it would mean developing a … Continue reading

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