Books
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One Book at the Time – Short Story
When she started out, many months before, she had never thought she’d be able to pull it off. But she was no longer afraid.
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Anne Enright Writing Prompt
Writers don’t judge, they describe, Anne Enright says. “I am interested in the way that things that are latent become known.”
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Forget this “When good men do nothing…”
Reading books can give a distorted idea of what evil is, and what it means to be a good person. And especially when we start using falsely attributed quotes that are both misleading and wrong, we need to reconsider what it actually means – to do good.
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Jelle – reactie op het Arctisch Dagboek, Boekenweekessay
Lieve Jelle, Ja, ik begrijp ook wel dat je zo niet een stukje kunt beginnen. Vooral omdat ik je niet ken, of tenminste, degene die ik denk te kennen enkel de ‘Parallelle Jelle’ is. Iemand die ik vijf jaar geleden al ‘kende’ van Moermansk enzo, en nu met Sotsji en een blog en boeken –…
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Antelme’s ‘The Human Race’ – Not Just Another Reductio ad Hitlerum
I’ve read a lot of books written by people who survived death camps in the Second World War. A couple years ago I visited Buchenwald. Last year I read Giorgio Agamben’s Homo Sacer project, Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive. Homo Sacer III. In it, reference was made to a book by Robert Antelme, which…