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I have long been a fan of Shirley Jackson’s unnerving fiction, which never fails to unsettle me. From the creeping sense of dread running through her short stories to the magical but disturbing world of We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Jackson excels at stripping back the surface veneer of seemingly polite society, exposing […]
Life Among the Savages by Shirley Jackson
Paris Undercover: A Wartime Story of Courage, Friendship and Betrayal (2025, Ballentine) by Matthew Goodman. Two single women, one an American, the other a Brit living in Paris, both caught up in occupied France during the Second World War. They were part of a network getting soldiers out of France, and they paid dearly for […]
Paris Undercover (book review)
Et Francine Hamelin c’est ici on va ivre toujours vers une autre naissance dont l’origine et le sens portent les gants blancs du soleil on veut étreindre le corps d’une beauté sans appui qui est un hymne et une totalité et on se dresse tremblant comme le premier arbre le premier épi devant la brûlure […]
Portraits de la vie sauvageonne ( XVII ) et ( XVIII ) / Photos de Francine Hamelin & Textes de Barbara Auzou
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Meditations in a Green Shade
It’s not every month that a poet—let alone a simple versifier like yours truly—gets to see his work in print in not one, but two major journals of thought. Yet this is the precisely the catbird seat on which I have alighted. The May 29 issue of The New York Review of Books carries “The […]
“The Dybbuk” and “The Whole Shebang”
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Impressions jardin II
Je croyais l’arbre de Judée mort mais il se réveille… Le liquidambar affiche son vert tendre de printemps…Je l ai planté il y a dix ans ( il faisait deux mètres)…Il en fait plus de huit… Et le rosier grimpant Louis de Funès est bien prometteur… Le thym se multiplie partout… Bref..On dirait le sud […]
Impressions jardin II
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