Tag: Literature
Nelio Biedermann: the youngest writer with the oldest story to tell
What began as a teenager’s attempt to write about his family became Lázár: a century-spanning novel of castles, war, desire, instability and disappearing worlds. An interview with Nelio Biedermann
Hélène Giannecchini and an Army of Lovers – how you process friendship today?
History asks us to rethink friendship as a political form of care. An interview with Hélène Giannecchini explores friendship as a radical way of living together
Ben Shattuck: The History of Sound from Edison’s miracle to Hotmail sadness
From the first recorded voice to the last forgotten inbox: Shattuck’s world is built on artifacts with charge. The digital leaves traces, not relics—and grief doesn’t live in a timeline
The hotel where Proust’s obsessions finally got a room of their own
In the Marais, Maison Proust has turned the Recherche into a place you can sleep in — Belle Époque salons, a bar run by a Ritz legend, and a spa...
The truth about modern adulthood: rootlessness and global drift
Into Ayşegül Savaş’s new novel, The Anthropologists – unnamed cities, rituals, and a life lived between languages reveal the architecture of modern adulthood and global displacement
Sex and politics make us dirty: Peter Cameron
Writing without filters, dirty minds, clean pages: conversation with American writer Peter Cameron about sex, shame, and the stories we hide