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Cărtărescu's Dreams
Some thoughts on Solenoid
Oct 16, 2025 • Benjamin Woollard
Memory and Culture
On Lynne Kelly's Memory Craft and the synthesis of knowledge
Sep 24, 2025 • Benjamin Woollard
Theme and Variation
Experiments with fictional form
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The Garlic Ballads, by Mo Yan
Sadness, pain, humiliation, and more sadness
Aug 26, 2025 • Benjamin Woollard
Scattered All Over the Earth
by Yoko Tawada
Jul 31, 2025 • Benjamin Woollard
Nostalgia, by Mircea Cărtărescu
Mircea Cărtărescu is a Romanian writer of a thoroughly surrealist bent, and his stories are nonlinear, packed with hallucination and impossibilities.
Jun 30, 2025 • Benjamin Woollard
Walking in America
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New Writing and Other Things
Tolstoy, kora, literature, Sembène, etc.
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